His ship got destroyed by a storm.
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why might Odysseus have committed on the cyclopes way of life before relating his adventure in their land
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After Odysseus "visits" the cyclops, he and his men go to the Land of the Dead.
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To get his men out of the cave safe.
The Odysseus feelings about the Cyclopes is unbearable. The Odysseus is very graceful to the Cyclopes but he just doesn't understand.
They had been driven by storm to an island near the land of the cyclopes. The next morning Odysseus decided to see what land that was. Nobody knew about the cyclopes. To understand the Odyssey I recommend you read it.
When Hermes arrived on Cyclopes Odysseus was crying of homesickness.
He told the cyclopes that his name was "Noman".
because he wanted to troll him