Book IX · Episode 3 of 5
Trapped with the man-eater
Polyphemus interrogates, devours four men
Scenes
- Polyphemus interrogates — Polyphemus demands origin, scorns Zeus
- Asks if strangers are traders or pirates
- Odysseus trembles, claims to serve Agamemnon
- Begs hospitality owed under Zeus’ protection
- Vows to spare none but by choice
- Slyly asks where their ship lies
- Devoured — Odysseus lies about ship, four devoured
- Claims Poseidon wrecked his ship
- Cyclops dashes two men, devours them whole
- Odysseus nearly strikes the sleeping giant
- Checks himself, boulder too heavy to move
- Cyclops eats two more men at dawn