Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
After the Trojan War, Odysseus, king of the island of Ithaca, tried to get home. Homer tells the story of his voyage in the Odyssey. In Book IX, he lands on a fertile island where the Cyclopes live, solitary giants with a single eye.
There he met Polyphemus, son of the sea god Poseidon. The episode is not just a monster story. It is a lesson: metis, cunning intelligence, can beat brute force. But hubris, overreaching pride, can ruin everything.
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- 2Hospitality expected, savagery found
- 3The wine, the stake and “Nobody”
- 4Escaping under the sheep
- 5The curse that sets the Odyssey in motion
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary11 terms explained in a tap.
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