Isolation In Odysseus Of Homer's The Odyssey

Odysseus, glorious and epic in essence assisted by men of steel, faces a challenge that may be tougher than their own guts in one of Homer’s two mighty epics, The Odyssey, written in the 8th Century BC, and taking place 400-450 years before it was written. On their journey home from the Trojan War, shortly after setting sail from the lands of the Lotus Eaters, Odysseus and his men set foot on the mysterious land of the Cyclopes. This land is full of inhabitants, lawless, isolated, one-eyed, and large, with an appetite for humans. Unsurprisingly, as Odysseus and his braving warriors landed on this land, they inevitably took in weird vibes from the island. The inhabitants, appearing to leave their plants unattended and growing out of place saying a lot about them, were lawless and didn’t fathom or care about the gods worshipped by the Ancient Greeks. Despite this, Odysseus was still curious about finding out about the brute and lawless nature of the cyclopes, and to see if they

Odysseus and his men, after long searching and observation of the Cyclopes, observed that the brute creatures lived in large caves carved into rocky mountains and lived a long distance from each other. Odysseus and his men, making a somewhat poor decision, sneak into the Cyclops’s cave. After gazing upon the wonderful meat and items inside the cave, one of Odysseus’s men suggests that they steal all of the Cyclops’s stuff and take it with them to their ship. However, Odysseus disapproves of this, considering that it was best for them to wait until the Cyclops comes back to the cave to see if he was a friend or a foe, since he was tending his sheep outside. Later that night, Cyclops came back to the cave, and while Odysseus and his men were hiding, the Cyclops saw them with the light of the