to get the golden fleece
The Cyclops, Polyphemus, is inside the cave when Odysseus and his men enter.
Why? Because the Cyclopes was going to eat them. :)
To get his men out of the cave safe.
Odysseus' reaction is to enter the cave to see if anyone is home.
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If you mean past the cyclopes; he blinds it then he and his remaining men, (the cyclopes ate some) clutch onto the bellies of sheep, and leave the cave in that most graceful fashion.
The cave that Odysseus and his men found when they landed on the Island of the Cyclopes belongs to Polyphemus. Odysseus decided to stay in the cave until its owner returned. When Polyphemus returned and saw the intruders, he ate Odysseus' men.
Odysseus blinded Polyphemus so that him and his men could escape.
Odysseus took twelve men into Polythemus' cave besides himself.
The Cyclops was herding his sheep and cattle when Odysseus first enter the cave.
In the Cyclopes excerpt from The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men are trapped in the cave of Polyphemus, a Cyclops. Polyphemus eats some of Odysseus's men and then blocks the entrance of the cave with a huge boulder to prevent their escape. Odysseus then comes up with a plan to blind Polyphemus and escape the cave.
Polyphemus is a Cyclops who traps Odysseus and his men in a cave in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. He is blinded by Odysseus and his men as they escape, leading to Poseidon's anger towards Odysseus. Polyphemus is a symbol of the dangers that the hero faces on his journey home.