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Odysseus went into the cave to find food for his crew. His crew also went into the cave for shelter.

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Polyphemos is the cyclops in the epic, The Odyssey, who is stabbed by Odysseus in the eye to get out of the cave they are trapped in because of this cyclops(Polyphemos)


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He wanted gifts from Polyphemus, and to eat his food.


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Odysseus carves the end of Polyphemos' club into a point and hardens it in the fire. He then waits until the cyclops returns in which he then gives him pure wine so that Polyphemos will pass out. After the cyclops is a sleep Odysseus and his men stab Polyphemos in the eye and to escape from the cave, Odysseus ties his men to the bottom of Polyphemos' sheep and wait until Polyphemos release his sheep out.


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Who threw a mountain on Odysseus in Odyssey?

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How was Odysseus's escape an insult polyphemos?

odysseus continually boasted as he left the island of the cyclopes that his name was odysseus and he was from ithica and that he had beaten polyphemos at his own game. this pissed off polyphemos and made him pray to his daddy poseidon that odysseus would never make it home.


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