Talk:Odysseus/@comment-83.24.101.164-20140810202017/@comment-556400-20140810225519

It's from the Odyssey. Odysseus and his men try to steal supplies from a cyclop's cave, but are captured when the cyclops, Polythemus, returns. Polythemus keeps the men around and eats a couple every day. After a few days, Odysseus gives the cyclops the strong wine they brought. When Polythemus is drunk, while chatting amiably, the cyclops promises to eat Odysseus last and asks him his name. Odysseus responds "I am Nobody." In the morning, before the cyclops wakes up, Odysseus stabs out the cyclop's eye. The cyclops calls to his companions for help, "Nobody has stabbed my eye!," and receives no help, allowing Odysseus and the remainder of his crew to escape.