'Moral Codes In The Cyclops' By Homer

During the Ancient Greek era, their culture had different social codes than other cultures in that era and the ones to come after. The Ancient Greeks of the time created their own moral codes called, “The Eight Greek Evil Thoughts” that were detrimental and took away the aspects of being human.”The Cyclops” is epic from the story, The Odyssey that was written by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald. In the episode of “The Cyclops” Odysseus and his men have washed ashore onto an island where it is mostly inhabited by cyclops, Odysseus’ curiosity leads him to a cave that it also the home to a cyclops named Polyphemus. Polyphemus returns to his cave and soon notices that he is not alone, he slowly starts to eat members from the group until

To experience Hyperphania is to basically feel pride but that isn’t earned. Polyphemus enters the episode from coming back to his cave and beginning his daily chores when he notices his unwelcome guests with Odysseus as the leader of the group, “”who are you?And where from?’... ‘We are from Troy, Achaeans, blown off course by shifting gales on the Great South Sea:” (The Cyclops 242 and 249-250). Odysseus takes great pride in where he came from and how he got here, making it seem that he feels that Polyphemus should be honored. In addition he doesn’t experience only one but also another moment of having extreme unworthy pride for himself. Odysseus and this team slowly began to reduce in numbers as Polyphemus eats a couple of their members each day, causing Odysseus's to plan his revenge against the cyclops, “ cheered my men… to keep their courage up… lugging it near the cyclops… lifted it, and rammed it deep in his crater eye” ( 370,371,375, 377, and 378). As a result Polyphemus is blinded by the group of men and Odysseus watches from a distance with a satisfied look.When Odysseus experiences his pride of what he had achieved he would usually boast about