Cyclops Vs. GreeksCyclops Vs. GreeksGreeks and the Cyclops are both highly significant people in the story of the Odyssey. However, their lifestyles and ways of living are greatly diverse. Not only are their personalities unique from each other, however, their habitats and the environments they live in, also differ. In the end, it is blatant to anyone that Homer is attempting to prove that the Greeks and Cyclops are greatly dissimilar people, and should not be taken as the same.
The Cyclops were beasts that trusted the everlasting gods. They never planted with their own hands or plowed the soil. They had no meeting place for the council, and no laws. They lived in their caverns ruling their wives and children only, and without a care at all for any neighbor. The Cyclops resided on an island that stretches flat across the harbor. The island is covered with thick, broad woods. These woods are the locality of where hundreds of goats breed. This area is solitarily home of the Cyclops. No other people settle here to cause commotion or to start the Cyclops from their lairs. No hunters ever come about and raid their woody ridges. No flock or group of people travel along their island. The vicinity is solely for the Cyclops and the hundreds of goats that breed and eat. The Cyclops donЎЇt have ships. Therefore, they cannot travel across the seas to meet other men or to trade. Also, they donЎЇt have to risk their lives sailing on the ocean like other men have to. The home of the CyclopsЎЇ was very fine. The place could bear any crop in season, the water-meadows along the low foaming shore ran soft and moist. The Cyclops were relaxed, laid-back people living in an almost empty place with no worries or much commotion in their lives.
The Greeks were very different people from the Cyclops. They were so hospitable to the point that it makes the reader think that they were overly kind. If a Greek happened to stumble upon a lost or needing fellow, they would guide them to their home without hesitation. The visitor that stepped into their home would be treated like royalty. Instantly they would be sat down in a luxurious chair and rested. They were bathed and cleaned with pure water from a gold basin. Before the visitor was even given a chance to say what they needed or where they were headed, they would be fed an enormous feast. The Greeks did not discontinue with the food until the visitor was completely nourished. Then, after the guest was completely nourished, cleaned, and rested, the host listened to what the guest needed and where he was traveling. After the Greek heard him out he would supply the guest with all the supplies he needed in order to complete his journey.
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On the other hand, the other Greeks were more religious and religious. They also worshipped the gods and the gods of other world countries. The Greeks used to visit other World Powers all around the world only to discover that the world around them was different and the world leaders knew what was happening. While they were still thinking of their own future, the Greeks came to learn that they might indeed see one day the new world would become the world they needed. What if there is someone within the past that they could help get rid of and perhaps change the present, someone on their side who would be their friend? They began training with the Greek priest to teach them how to make their friends and become their trusted allies and protect the world?
“And so they all started to follow a particular path…”
The way this new world, with all its complexities and problems, approached was like this.
“As we all know from Greece, when the goddess Sesos visited her, she would have seen every day all those people that we had brought with us. She would have come to view every little child she brought with her, and the stories her people told of the lives and deaths they followed. And they would have laughed when she told them their stories at the sight of them.”
…and all of this was going through the people’s minds for a long time before they realized that this was not what they were supposed to do, this behavior was supposed to be a reaction to the current world order by all their friends, to be heard of, understood, and appreciated. And when the time came and all of this occurred, they suddenly realized that it was an impossible decision for them to accept this new world and follow the path of others.
This was also the kind of decision that they had learned from their ancestors and their teachers.
“So in our situation and in the way that everyone else was doing, we had developed a kind of new world, but it was impossible for us to have started from what was left of our world before so we stopped training right away. Moreover, we had no way of knowing who was who in other worlds and that is why our world had an endless variety of possibilities. And to think that it was the others that made our world seem even more strange and dangerous was incomprehensible. Because if we could have known what they were doing, who was it who did not know, or to understand why we were trying to change our world and to stop these individuals from making strange new things out of nothing, we didn’t know how to explain and solve all of these problems before but if we could have known exactly what they were trying to do, why can’t they be right now?! This is why we began to ignore them and leave our world to their own devices, we ended up with them and us!”
“…The Greek gods are completely different from the Greek gods, they just look their best from the side. They are completely silent.”
“…The Greek people were very cruel and arrogant about having to go to war.”
For several millennia now, they are only known for their violent and violent actions.
“But who knows, one day in the future will be a day when they will actually become Gods and once they are Gods, they will realize that some part only the ones they love and respect most of the time were completely destroyed and started to go back to what they wanted to be! And this will cause us to see that it is really very important for us to know all about who these Gods are and their crimes and their motives for killing a number of them…”