"But the Cyclops there, still groaning, racked with agony , groped around for the huge slab, and heaving it from the doorway, down he sat in the caves mouth, his arms spread wide, hoping to catch a comrade stealing out with sheep-- such a blithering fool he took me for."
Robert Fagle's: The Odyssey
page 224 between section 460 and 470
He rolled a huge boulder across the entrance.
He is out sheparding his flock of Goats and Sheep- Odysseus had time to escape before Polyphemus came, but he wanted to see the great cyclops
Odysseus and his men escape the cyclops Polyphemus cave by stabbing his eye and hiding unter the rams until morning.
Odysseus and his men wait in the cyclops cave, as Odysseus is curious as to who the cyclops is. As Polyphemus brings in his sheep, he spots the men in the cave.
Odysseus did not kill Polyphemus outright, because then he and his men would be trapped in the cave, blocked by the large boulder at the entrance of the cave.
Odysseus waited for the cyclops Polyphemus inside the cave with some of his crewmen.
Polyphemus had rolled a large boulder in front of the entrance to the cave, which was too heavy for Odysseus and his crew to move.
Polyphemus places a huge rock over the entrance to his cave.
Polyphemus was the son of Poseidon, who hated Odysseus. Polyphemus knew nothing of Odysseus until he found Odysseus and his men in Polyphemus' cave, although he was once told by the sage Telemus that he would be blinded someday by a man named Odysseus.
Only 6 of the original 12 men return with Odysseus from Polyphemus' cave.
When Polyphemus first spies Odysseus and his men in the cave, he starts a conversation with them, asking who they are, what they are doing there, and where they have come from.
One is: When Odysseus' curiosity leads him to Polyphemus' (Cyclops) cave, and see how Polyphemus treats them.
Odysseus was curious about the type of men the Cyclops were.
to meet the monster.
Odysseus has to milk the goats.