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Book 9 - The cyclops
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"I am
Odysseus...
the whole world talks of my stratagems and my fame has reached the heavens"
"
My fools of men refused
"
"I had to use
force
to bring them back"
"My men
begged
me"
"He could not outwit someone with my knowledge of the world. I answered with
plausible words
"
"
He devoured like a mountain lion
"
"
Limb
by limb he tore them to pieces to
make his meal
"
""My name is
nobody
"
"Twist it home, like a man boring a ship's timber with a
drill
"
"I indicated
silently
that they should stop their
weeping
"
"My temper was up... tell them your eye was put out by
Odysseus
, sacker of cities, the son of
Laertes
"
Kelly on vengance and justice
Homer
presents Polyphemus' xenia as the
worst
in the poem
Griffin
on heroic mistakes
Odysseus is forced to learn the power of
self control
and to not fall for easy
kleos
Schein
on Polyphemus
The
barbarism
of Polyphemus is exaggerated by the way he eats his
victims
raw
Morrison on the lotus
The lotus fruits pose a much
darker
threat to nostos than the
Cicones