Book 9 - The cyclops

Cards (15)

  • "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