In the evening, the monstrous Cyclops comes home to the cave where Odysseus and his men are waiting. They hide, while he tends his flock and closes the door of the cave behind him with a rock so enormous that twenty teams of oxen could not shift it.
Hear Homer’s Greek and follow in Samuel Butler’s English here.
The drawing of the Cyclops’s arrival, courtesy of the British Museum, is by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. Illustration by courtesy of the British Museum under licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.