Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Odyssey book 9 notes

  • goats
  • feasting
  • personfifies red dawm
  • travelling by ship
  • strange land
  • a giant monster man-mountain
  • wine***
  • sharing gifts
  • wine needed to e diluted by 20 cups of water
  • flocks of sheep
  • sacrafice to gods
  • huge boulders blocking cave exit
  • fire
  • hospitality
  • cyclops dont care
  • Odysseus is crafty, he escapes danger using his witts
  • young dawn with her rose red fingers
  • cyclops ate 4 people, gruesome meals
  • splashes their brains everywhere
  • the clyclops' club is as big as a ship's mast
  • ate 2 more men!!
  • gives clyclops wine, trickery
  • very strong wine, tries to get clyclops drunk
  • Odysseus: "My name is nobody"
  • drills a burning mast into the clyclop's eye 
  • red geyser of blood came out of his eye
  • escaped by clinging to sheeps bellies
  • trash talking to Polythemus
  • fatal flaw? pride?
  • prophecy

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