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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps you remember reading The Odyssey in high school or college (or possibly you picked up

Emily Wilson’s fabulous new translation at the Painted Porch). Even if you haven’t, you’re probably familiar with the cyclops scene. Odysseus and his men find themselves trapped in a cave with Polyphemus, the deranged, man-eating, sheep herding, one-eyed beast. Odysseus hatches an ingenious escape plan: they wait for the cyclops to fall asleep and then stab him in the eye with a sharpened log. Enraged and blinded, Polyphemus staggers to remove the stone he had rolled in front of the entrance of the cave, which frees Odysseus and his men.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom
0:09.0	designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.
0:13.3	Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some
0:17.6	of history's greatest men and women.
0:20.2	For more you can visit us dailystoic.com.
0:29.8	Perhaps you remember reading the Odyssey in high school or college, or possibly you picked
0:34.1	up Emily Wilson's fabulous translation.
0:37.3	Even if you haven't, you're probably familiar with the Cyclops scene.
0:41.2	Odysseus and his men find themselves trapped in a cave with polyphemus, the deranged man
0:46.9	eating sheep hurting one eye at a beast.
0:50.1	Odysseus hatches an ingenious escape plan.
0:53.7	They wait for the Cyclops to fall asleep and then stab him in the eye with a sharpened
0:58.1	log.
0:59.1	Enraged and blinded, polyphemous staggers to remove the stone he had rolled in front of
1:04.5	the entrance of the cave, which frees Odysseus and his men.
1:09.2	Its brilliant and best of all, Odysseus never having given the Cyclops his real name is
1:14.3	off-Scott free.
1:16.2	But then, just out of reach of the bleeding angry shouting Cyclops, he turns back in
1:22.0	taunts.
1:29.0	Say that Odysseus, the city-sacker, Learchus's son, who lives in Ithaca destroyed your
1:35.5	sight.
1:36.5	Odysseus couldn't help himself.
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