Why did the fellow Cyclops leave Polyphemus alone when Ulysses and his men attacked him ?
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The fellow Cyclops leave Polyphemus alone because they thought that Polyphemus was attacked by some disease.
Explanation:
Polyphemus said them that Noman was with him, Noman had hurt him and tried to kill him.
Cyclops interpreted his statement in a wrong way and understood that:
-no man was with him there, no man had hurt him and also no one has tried to kill him. In short, they assumed that nobody has hurt him.
The fellow Cyclops leave Polyphemus alone in that situation where a witch called Ulysses attacked him because they thought that Polyphemus was attacked by some disease.
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Explanation: Story of Odysseus
- Odysseus and his few men after sailing for weeks landed on strange land.
- On landing his warriors went ashore to have a look around.
- After strolling for few minutes they came across the mouth of a huge cave.
- Odysseus`s men entered the cave and only to find out that it was occupied by a gigantic being.
- Inside the cave they found flocks of sheep.
- They slaughtered the sheep as they were very hungry.
- They were unaware of the fact that this was the lair of Polyphemus the Cyclops.
- The land were they landed was the home of Cyclope.
- Polyphemus on returning back to cave closed the entrance with a big rock.
- Odysseus and his men rushed home towards the entrance only to see that a huge rock blocking the entrance.
- On seeing Odysseus and his men he inquired about them.
- Odysseus told the gigantic being that they were sea-farers and that they had lost their way and were wandering for food.
- When Polyphemus found that they have eaten his sheep he became very annoyed and refused them to exit the cave.
- The gigantic being soon started having the brave warriors as his meal.
- To overcome this act of brutality Odysseus came up with a plan to escape.
- He offered Polyphemus a gourd of strong wine who readily had it.
- The wine made him drowsy and in few minutes he fell asleep.
- Odysseus and his men grabbed this opportunity and threw a red-hot poker which was placed on the fire-place on his only eye,making him blind.
- The giant woke up in shock and pain and wanted to know the person who did it.
- Odysseus played smart and told him the name of the culprit as "Nobody".
- Polyphemus fellow Cyclops came running to see what has happened.
- When they asked Polyphemus about the entire he said that Nobody had blinded him.
- To this the Cyclopes laughed and even called him an idiot.
- They said they are unable to help him out in this matter as "Nobody" had hurt him.
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