"Salvation from the next adventure requires the special intelligence associated with Odysseus' name. Odysseus is the cleverest of the ancient Greek heroes because his divine guardian is the goddess of wisdom, Athena. As a result of this confrontation with the Cyclops named Polyphemus, the one-eyed monster son of the god Poseidon, Odysseus incurs the wrath of the sea god. Polyphemus might be said to represent the brute force and a negative singleness of purpose that any hero must overcome before he can reach home."
The Land of the Cyclopes, an island that took the lives of a handful of Odysseus' men due to the cyclops, Polyphemus. The men hid in his cave whilst Odysseus planned revenge on Polyphemus. Gouging the great Cyclops' eye out, Odysseus and the remainder of his men tired themselves to sheep before sailings back to sea with them.
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