I wouldn’t spare you or your comrades to escape the wrath of Zeus, not unless my own heart prompted me to do it. The Cyclopes care nothing about Zeus, who bears the aegis, or the blessed gods. He answered me at once- his heart was pitiless: ‘What fools you are, you strangers, or else you come from far away- telling me to fear the gods and shun their rage. We’re here as suppliants to you, and Zeus protects all suppliants and strangers-as god of guests, he cares for all respected visitors.’ “I finished speaking.
As for us, we’re visitors here and come as suppliants to your knee, in hope that you will make us welcome or provide some gift, the proper thing one does for strangers. We boast that we are Agamemnon’s men, son of Atreus, now the best-known man beneath wide heaven-the city he wiped out was such a great one, and he killed so many.
Attempting to get home, we had to take a different route and chart another course, a scheme, I think, which gave Zeus pleasure. ‘We are Achaeans coming back from Troy and blown off course by various winds across vast tracts of sea. The Cyclopes do not follow the rules of the gods like normal humans do instead they follow their own rules. This scene is also important in noting the fact that the Cyclopes follow very different rules from that of the Achaeans, meaning they follow no rules at all. Odysseus has good instincts and knows not to tell the Cyclops where his ship is nesting so he tells a lie to the Cyclops. This passage is an important passage to look at during this scene in the Odyssey because it shows the cunning and clever side of Odysseus’ character. It depicts the first interaction and the first words spoken between Odysseus and the Cyclops. This passage describes the first meeting of Odysseus and his men with the one-eyed giant Polyphemus. He was the son of Greek god Poseidon, god of the sea.
After Odysseus had tied them up back on the ships, they sailed off into the night and stumbled upon the land of the Cyclops, where they meet the Cyclops named Polyphemus. In this passage, Odysseus and his men have just escaped the land of the Lotus-eaters, where they given fruit causing the crew to forget about going home.
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