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  1. Odysseus assumes that the large cyclops will be friendly.
  2. Odysseus does not plan for a possible route of escape, leaving him and his men trapped in the cave.
  3. Odysseus does not send work back to his men on the ships as to what he is doing or where he is before the cyclops Polyphemos comes.
  4. Odysseus gives the Cyclops his name when escaping, causing him to be cursed.
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In mythologly Odysseus and his men escape the cave of the cyclops polyphermus when they make him drunk and blind him?

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