The main idea of book 9 in The Odyssey is Odysseus and his men landed on the land of the Cyclopes, the son of Poseidon. They ate some wild goats there before crossing the mainland. Odysseus's men lead him to snatch some of the food and run off, but then he gets greedy and starts to be all that. While he tries to snatch food the Cyclops Polyphemus returns back. The Cyclopes devours two of Odysseus’s men and keeps Odysseus and the rest in his cave for meals. The next day, Odysseus finds a wooden staff in the cave and hardens it in the fire. When Polyphemus returns, Odysseus gets him drunk on wine that he brought along from the ship. while he gets him drunk Polyphemus asks Odysseus his name and replies that his name is Nobody. As soon as Polyphemus knocks out from being drunk Odysseus selects a group of his men stab the red-hot staff into his eye. Polyphemus wakes with a yell, and his neighbors come to see what is wrong, but they leave as soon as he calls out, Nobody’s killing me and they couldn't understand what went wrong. After the morning Odysseus and his men escape from the cave, unseen by the blind Polyphemus, by hanging to the bellies of the sheep as they go out the blind giant prays to his father, Poseidon, calling for vengeance on Odysseus.
In the book The Odyssey by Homer in chapter 9 it shows how Odysseus is and how smart he can be, he starts to blab about how he was the one who stabbed the monsters eye out and gets very stuck up about it since he is not like an ordinary man. Connecting him to an epic hero is almost similar. An epic hero is someone who is known for something or has a good deed. Compared to our definition like the hulk or someone who saves people. Odysseus is an epic hero cause he does have an amount of good strength and gets out of the way of trouble.
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