Odyssey- Book 9

• Demodocus- singer= like a feast.. nothing more beautiful on earth
• Odysseus tells his story
• him and his men went to Battle and sailed away on their ships and when Poseidon was mad @ Odysseus for trying to return home, he caused a storm and blew them out of course. they came to an island.. they saw a man larger than life and Odysseus was very curious and wanted to see if this creature would make peace with him. so he brought it goat skin covered in wine. The man ate his friends.
• Telemachus was planning on staking his eye out so he was persuading him to try their wine so he could get close to him and when Odysseus go him drunk, they stabbed the stake into his eye.
• they slept in the Cyclops's cave and with the sheep
• and were leaving the island and Odysseus was taunting the Cyclops and putting them in danger and told him then that his name was not No-name, but it was Odysseus.
• Cyclops wishes to Poseidon not to let them escape and to lose their way home and get his eye back..
• Poseidon did a lot of this to make him suffer.... (future)