Are Brains Mightier than Brawn? Although most Greek mythology shows that being strong can lead to being greater than others, what if I told you that a humongous and strong, brain-bashing cyclops was once defeated by a single wise man and his crew? The cyclops named Polyphemus who was humongous and strong according to the text "The Cyclops” because he could lift a giant stone that not even twenty-two normal sized four-wheeled waggons could shift, to close his cave. The wise man named Odysseus defeated the cyclops later in the story by creating a spear from the cyclops' green olive wood staff to get him drunk with wine and then stab him in the eye. Odysseus also told the cyclops that his name was Nobody so that if he cried for help from the other cyclops, they would think that nobody was hurting him. With this knowledge we can tell that, "The Cyclops", an excerpt from Homer's 'the Odyssey'" has many details and characters that show the theme "brains are mightier than brawn" is indeed true. Some examples of this were …show more content…
This is true because according to the text it says, “Standing beside this piece of timber I cut off a fathom’s length, which I handed over to my men and told them to smooth it down. When they had done this, they stood and sharpened it to a point. Then I hardened it in the fire, and finally I carefully hid it under the dung. I then told my company to cast lots for the dangerous task of helping me to lift the pole and twist it in the cyclops eye when he was sound asleep.” The pieces of evidence shown here explain that Odysseus cut off a piece of the staff next to him to sharpen it, fire it, and then stab it in the cyclops eye when he was asleep. Not only did he have that planned, but he did something even smarter to make the cyclops fall