odyssey book #9
NEW COASTS AND POSEIDON'S SON
Characters
POseidon 
Polyphemus
Odysseus
Themes
Cleverness
lonliness
Courage
Values
Hospitality
Respect towards Gods
Main Events
Odysseus & his men arrive in the land of the Cyclops
Cyclops are giants and louts (agressive)
each one dwells with one cave
Odysseus meets Polyphemus
Odysseus remembers of wine Maron gave him


Odysseus uses wine to get Polyphemus drunk
tricks Polyphemus & says he's nobody
Odysseus Tales Polyphemus' eye out
odysseus uses sheep to escape from cave
Polyphemus prays to Poseidon 
Epic Simile:
"In a smithy one sees a white-hot axe head or adze plundged and wrungin a cold tub, screeching steem- the way they make soft iron hale and hard-: just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.