After Odysseus and his crew made their way from the land of the lotus eaters, they arrived in the land of the Cyclops. The Cyclops were remarkably huge beasts who led an unconventional lifestyle as described by Odysseus.
According to Odysseus the Cyclops were lawless brutes. They never tended their fields and only relied on the naturally growing plants and the goats they kept for sustenance. The Cyclops had no social meetings or gatherings and...
After Odysseus and his crew made their way from the land of the lotus eaters, they arrived in the land of the Cyclops. The Cyclops were remarkably huge beasts who led an unconventional lifestyle as described by Odysseus.
According to Odysseus the Cyclops were lawless brutes. They never tended their fields and only relied on the naturally growing plants and the goats they kept for sustenance. The Cyclops had no social meetings or gatherings and their association with each other was restricted to emergencies. Their focus was only confined to their immediate family. They established no laws to govern themselves. They lived in exclusion and order was only maintained in their homes, which were situated on the mountain peaks. The Cyclops did not travel outside their territory and thus were not equipped in ship building or sailing.
We sailed hence, always in much distress, till we came to the land of the lawless and inhuman Cyclopes. Now the Cyclopes neither plant nor plough, but trust in providence, and live on such wheat, barley, and grapes as grow wild without any kind of tillage, and their wild grapes yield them wine as the sun and the rain may grow them. They have no laws nor assemblies of the people, but live in caves on the tops of high mountains; each is lord and master in his family, and they take no account of their neighbors.
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