Question

is anybody reading the odyssey i need help with a summary on the cyclops

Answer 1

I read that my 9th grade year of highschool. Basically the cyclops kidnaps Odysseus and his crew, and he begins eating them one by one as the days go on. Odysseus tells the Cyclops that his name is "nobody". After awhile, Odysseus figures out the Cyclops' schedule and forms a plan with his crew to escape. (They couldn't escape because the Cyclops placed a boulder in front of the cave exit.) While the Cyclops is tending to his sheep Odysseus and his crew create a stake, which they intend on stabbing the Cyclops in his one eye with. They blind the Cyclops in his sleep, and the Cyclops cries for help from his neighbors saying "Nobody has hurt me, nobody has blinded me." Therefore, no one comes to his aid. In the morning, when it is time for the sheep to graze the Cyclops removes the boulder. He knows that Odysseus and his crew will attempt to escape so he stands in front of the exit only letting the sheep get out. However, Odysseus and his crew ere tied to the bellies of the sheep, which the Cyclops does not know because he is blind. So, Odysseus and his crew escape and as they are sailing away the Cyclops attempts to throw a boulder at the ship.

Answer 2

Ten years have passed since the fall of Troy, and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and rowdy mob of suitors who have overrun Odysseus’s palace and pillaged his land continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus. Prince Telemachus, Odysseus’s son, wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the young prince, eliminating the only opposition to their dominion over the palace

Answer 3

that's good, but she/he asked for a summary on the Cyclops ^

Answer 4

You just need to identify the major events, starting with Odysseus and his men arriving on the island to Poseidon cursing him as they leave.