Reading Notes: Homer's Odyssey, Reading A


Cyclops description: lawless, aggressive, lazy

  • Live on a fertile island - paradise

Gore:

  • Cyclopes took two of his men and smashed them on the ground - brains ran out - and tore them limb from limb
Plot:
  • Ships came to the land of the Cyclopes
  • Men came to the cave of the cyclopes - asked for hospitality
    • Cyclopes took two of his men and smashed them on the ground - brains ran out - and tore them limb from limb
  • Made spears from cyclopes club
    • Wait for sleep to bury them into cyclopes eyes
  • Made the wine a gift to the cyclopes
    • gift to Nobody - kill him last
  • Heated spear/stake in fire and then buried it into eye - twisting description
  • Cyclopes - Polyphemus cries out to his neighbors
    • Ask who as hurt him and he responds Nobody.
  • To escape Polyphemus:
    • tied 3 rams together and placed a man underneath the middle one.
  • Last act of men - herded Cyclopes' sheep onto ship and brag
    • Polyphemus through a large rock - tidal wave that forced ship back to shore
    • Men used pole and rowers to move back out to sea
    • Curse - men never reach home and if they did, not in time
Title: Odysseus, man of many resources, scion of Zeus, son of Laertes

Idea: play with setting - a local tells Odysseus of the fertility of land and danger of Cyclopes

Image information: Illustration by Flaxman

Bibliography: 
Odyssey: The Land of the Cyclopes; story source: Homer's Odyssey, translated into English by Tony Kline (2004).
Odyssey: Prisoners of the Cyclops; story source: Homer's Odyssey, translated into English by Tony Kline (2004).
Odyssey: The Cyclops Defeated; story source: Homer's Odyssey, translated into English by Tony Kline (2004).
Odyssey: On Circe's Island; story source: Homer's Odyssey, translated into English by Tony Kline (2004).

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