Question

Read this excerpt from The Odyssey.

I said to him as plausibly as I could: 'Cyclops, you ask my name and I will tell it you; give me, therefore, the present you promised me; my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends have always called me.'
Which of the following themes from Homer’s The Odyssey is represented in the passage above?

loyalty
hospitality
deception
perseverance

Answer 1

Deception

Step-by-step explanation:

Odysseus deceives the Cyclops by tricking him. He tells the Cyclops that his name is "Noman" thus when Odysseus defeats the Cyclops, and the Cyclops runs to his friends (other Cyclopes) for help and declares the name of the offender, then the Cyclops would have states that "Noman" or rather "no - man" had hurt him. Therefore his friends would think that no one had hurt him and hence, not help him.