- Cyclopes love sheep. And humans. They milk one and eat the other.
- Cyclopes have regular habits.
- Cyclopes have a tendency towards dipsomania.
- Cyclopes are not too bright.
- You can kill a Cyclops by getting him drunk and then sticking a hot, sharp, fire-hardened tree trunk in his eye, with the help of a few brave Greek warriors. Don't be put off by the chunks of human flesh the Cyclops vomits up in his drunken stupor.
It's amazing what you can learn by reading the classics! My adventures with the Loeb Classical Library Reader continue...
ADDENDUM: I'd like to add that the short excerpt of the The Odyssey I read drew me into the story immediately. It was like being there in that horrid cave with Odysseus and his crew. Clearly we don't study Homer because he's old, but because he is a master storyteller.
