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.
Odysseus devised a clever plan to escape from the Cyclops Polyphemos by first getting him drunk on wine and then telling him that his name was "Nobody." When Polyphemos fell asleep, Odysseus and his men blinded him with a sharpened stake. When the other Cyclopes came to his aid, Polyphemos could only say that "Nobody" was hurting him, allowing Odysseus and his crew to escape undetected by hiding under the sheep as they left the cave.
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.
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)
Polyphemos threw the hill at Odysseus, because Odysseus blinded him, escaped his cave, and then threw insults at him from his escape-ship. Polyphemos then begged his father, the god Poseidon, to stop Odysseus from reaching Ithaka at all costs, which is why Poseidon hates Odysseus.
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Odysseus devised a clever plan to escape from the Cyclops Polyphemos by first getting him drunk on wine and then telling him that his name was "Nobody." When Polyphemos fell asleep, Odysseus and his men blinded him with a sharpened stake. When the other Cyclopes came to his aid, Polyphemos could only say that "Nobody" was hurting him, allowing Odysseus and his crew to escape undetected by hiding under the sheep as they left the cave.
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.
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)
Polyphemos threw the hill at Odysseus, because Odysseus blinded him, escaped his cave, and then threw insults at him from his escape-ship. Polyphemos then begged his father, the god Poseidon, to stop Odysseus from reaching Ithaka at all costs, which is why Poseidon hates Odysseus.
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Because Polyphemus was the only one able to move the slab of rock that was closing the cave. if he kills the cyclops while he is sleeping, they ll be trapped in the cave for ever they can never move the large boulder which the cyclops closed the cave with He blinded him instead so they could escape by tying themselves to the belly of the Cyclops's sheep. Polyphemus was a giant Cyclops. (A son of Posiedon) Odysseus had enough trouble simply blinding him without attempting to physically kill him (which in any case might have alerted the other Cyclops living nearby).
by trying to kill him
by trying to kill him
His father is Posiedon. That is one of the reason Odysseus is lost.
No, Athena really liked Odysseuss' wit and cleverness.
Arrogance. The reason he invoked Poseidon's wrath was due to him revealing his name to Polyphemos. Polyphemos (a cyclops, if you don't remember) was not aware of who Odysseus was, since Odysseus had introduced himself as 'nobody'. However, his arrogance led him to reveal his name as he sailed away. Therefore, Polyphemos was able to tell Poseidon, his father, the name of the man who had wounded him. Which leads to Odysseus' famous wanderings.
He wanted gifts from Polyphemus, and to eat his food.