In one of Homers epic poems, the Odyssey Odysseus with his sailors land on the island of the cyclops. The cyclops live on the island living off of their goats and their farming. Odysseus and some of his men go to the cave of the cyclops Polyphemus son of Poseidon to find out if the cyclops are a humane people. After Polyphemus comes home with his goats and sheep he rolls a stone in front of the cave and then finds Odysseus and his men. He takes two of the men and eats them whole. The next morning he does the same thing again and then lets his goats and sheep out and rolled the stone in front of his cave again. Odysseus then comes up with a plan to let them escape. That night Odysseus offers the cyclops wine from the temple of Apollo. The giant becomes drunk and then asks what Odysseus’s name is. Odysseus then replies that his name is noman. When Polyphemus is asleep Odysseus and his men plunge a large stick carved to a point in to the giants eye. Polyphemus howls in pain and because of the yelling the other cyclops come to see what is wrong. Polyphemus then tells them that “Noman is killing me.” Then they leave thinking that he is just ill. The next day Odysseus and his remaining men escape by hiding under the sheep as they go outside because the cyclops was now blinded. They drove the sheep on to their ships and then sailed away.