>odysseus fools the cyclops by saying his name is nobody
>Nhbody, Nhbdy's tricked me, Nhbody's ruined me!
>other cyclops say if nobody has tricked him to stfu
>other cyclops know what the word nobody means
>main cyclops doesn't
>Homer was a shit-tier pseud writer
Odysseus fools the cyclops by saying his name is nobody
Daniel Wright
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Jonathan Thomas
>modern english translation of 3000 year old wordplay
>w-why doesn't this make perfect sense
Grayson Hill
How does the translation affect this at all? One cyclops doesn't know what a word means, the rest do.
Elijah Reyes
nice selfie op
Lincoln Clark
Does every human know what every word means? Maybe main cyclops was just stupid and tricky Ulysses got lucky as he tends to do throughout his entire life.
Isaiah King
It's a pun, Jesus
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Elijah Rivera
That doesn't explain why Cyclops would think a pun could be a name
William Perez
Also doesn't explain why the translation effects how he could get tricked, but don't expect logic from le epic greeks apologists
Brandon Gutierrez
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Actually an informative reply. Thanks desu.
Mason Wright
You do remember that Odysseus got the cyclops very drunk?
Owen James
OP BTFO
Nicholas Wright
How is this a contradiction in any way? The cyclops knows what nobody means, he just thinks its Odysseus' name.
William Diaz
why are people like OP allowed to read
Ryder Baker
The cyclops got himself drunk because he lived alone in a cave and only left to take walks because he felt like he still had to try and connect with the outside world after getting out of a bad relationship with a whore girlfriend who cheated on him but still had the nerve to break up with, and implicate him, instead of taking any goddamned responsibility for herself
Bentley Fisher
The joke is that the cyclops are dumb brutes.
Imagine it were Americans instead of cyclops.
It's funny now isn't it? Hehehe.
Charles Garcia
Then why didn't he refer to him as "the man who calls himself 'nobody'".
Bentley Bennett
Has OP never seen a Simpsons prank call gag?
Kayden Martinez
>Ulysses
Jack Bailey
It doesn't matter whether the cyclops know it was a name or not. There was nothing they could really do about it without knowing it was Odysseus.
Gavin Walker
>not joyceposting
Luke Howard
Because he's got a hot stick in his eye.
Gavin Jones
user, are you okay
Eli Price
Because he was drunk and just had a fucking sharp piece of wood driven into his eyeball not a minute ago.
Camden Ross
But why would he do that when he had seen Odysseus? Half the play falls apart the moment you think about it so I'm honestly not surprised
Matthew Reed
OP completely blown the fuck out.
William Murphy
checked and /thread
/thread x2
Thomas Bell
Oh right, so the fucking Gods, monsters, bags of wind that can sail a ship, witches, people turning into pigs and Odysseus hanging onto a tree for 16 hours and the fucking CYCLOPS, that's all alright. But someone drunk, blind and grossly mutilated about 30 seconds ago not being rational? That's just fucking bollocks!
Alexander Jenkins
Comp. I am legion
Matthew Morgan
No what I'm saying it the play roundly and routinely doesn't even bother to follow its own internal logic, PLUS nothing that the other Greeks have shown. And not only that but how would the Greeks know about a Cyclops anyway? Like I understand the play perfectly, and that's mainly the reason I think it's so weak and hardly deserving of the classic label
Bentley Phillips
You've got to be trolling at this point.
>how would the Greeks know about a Cyclops anyway
Leaving out the fact they don't exist outside of bad pregnancies and the Greeks themselves made up the fucking myths, why wouldn't they? I don't get the logic.
Isaiah Edwards
Dr. Polyphemus, I'm nobody
Levi Harris
>I don't get the logic.
Because there is none, if the Greeks were so scared of Cyclops, all Poseidon had to do the entire 20 years was send a Cyclop to kill Odysseus. But he doesn't
Kayden Torres
Poseidon wasn't allowed to kill Odysseus.