Hypereia

My men and I then went on to land on the island of Hyperia where the Cyclopes dwelled. For two days we feasted and on the third day, I decided enter a cave where I saw Polyphemos and I wanted to discover if he was friend or foe. I took 12 men with me and we feasted on food until Polyphemos returned. Polyphemos ate two of my men!  Then I decided not to kill Polyphemos in his sleep but to drug him with Maron's wine and merely blind him, but before this plan of action could occur, Polyphemos ate another four of my men! 

 After the plan was complete and I had blinded him, I then used my extreme cunning and informed Polyphemos that my name was Nobody, so that when the other Cyclopes came wondering why Polyphemos was screaming, he would say, "Nobody hurt me."  I then instructed the remaining 6 men to hide underneath Polyphemos' giant sheep and escape, and then took the sheep for their own.

As we were sailing out I stupidly was over powered at my own pride and taunted Polyphemos almost destroying my ship, and  then I did this again and still managed to escape! Looking back on my actions and the dessions that I made first, I decided to 'get to know' the obviously gigantic men, then upon leaving in a fit of foolish pride I decided to taunt Polyphemos-then after that I still hadn't learned my lesson and taunted him yet again, causing Polyphemos to put my men in jeopardy by throwing hilltops at the ships.

 However, despite this, I did make two very good decisions that saved I decided that I would not kill Polyphemos, but merely blind him because only Polyphemos could open the stone blocking the cave from the outer world showing my cunning and bravery gifted to me by the Gods. I also came up with the idea to hide under the sheep as an escape route. Without my  idea, the crew would be minus a dozen crew mates and their witty leader, and probably doomed. I only regret that my foolish action fuled by pride and the victory after Troy lead to the dimsise of 6 of my men bringing the total losses to 78 men and no ships.