In book 9 of the Odyssey, Odysseus is too proud to hear his men´s pieces of advise .The men, when visiting the Cyclopes´island, want to find food and leave. They go to the cave where the Cyclop was supposed to be, as he was not there , the men want to flee.However ,Odysseus chooses not to listen to them and when the Cyclop comes back to his place he loses six of his men.