Odysseus's trick of naming himself 'No one' works because when the blinded Polyphemus cries out that 'no one' is attacking him, the other Cyclopes conclude nothing is actually wrong and don't come to his aid.

29:15bellowing for help. And there are other cyclops, you know, his neighbors, and they hear his cries and they come down and they ask him what has happened. And again, to quote Homer, from inside the cave, mighty Polyphimas made his reply, "Friends, no one is killing me." And so his friends answer, "Well, if no one is killing you, if no one has harmed you, and it's clearly then just a malady sent

29:37by Zeus, you must pray to your divine father for relief." And Polyphimas's divine father is Poseidon, the god of the sea. So a very, very powerful god indeed. >> Not good news if you want to get home by sea, right? I mean, to have Poseidon against you. >> Absolutely. So brilliant for Adysius. He's come up with the, you know, with the spike in the eye we and also the

30:00whole, you know, calling himself nobody means that the other Cyclops think that nothing's the matter with Polyphimas. But they're still not out of danger because what Polyphimas does now is to push back the um the boulder because he's got to let his flocks of of sheep and goats go out. And as they kind of start milling out through the cave entrance, he feels each one to make sure

30:21that Adysius and his men aren't trying to kind of creep out um hidden among the flocks. But again, Adysius is equal to this challenge. So what he does is he ties each of his men underneath the belly of um of a sheep. Uh and they all kind of manage to get out and Polyphimas doesn't realize that they're kind of tied under the bellies of the sheep. And

30:41then he himself there's one giant ram and he hugs onto the fleece of this giant ram and the ram trots out and Polyphimas he strokes the ram and realizes that this is you know his beloved ram and feels that it's walking slowly because of the weight but he thinks that the ram is walking slowly out of grief for his blinded master. So very sad. Anyway, Adysius and his men

31:06managed therefore to get out of the cave, cut themselves free from um from the sheep. They drive the entire flock of sheep down towards their ship. They load the uh the sheep onto the boat so that you know they can kind of roast them later and have another barbecue. And then they pull out to sea. But Adysius is a warrior and he wants the person he's defeated to know who has