The Odyssey

What is the attitude of Polyphemus the Cyclops toward Zeus?

Book 9

Robert Fagles translation

For Honors English Study Guide

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He clearly has no regard for the Gods and does not fear them,

The Cyclopes care nothing about Zeus,
who bears the aegis, or the blessed gods.
We are much more powerful than them.
I wouldn’t spare you or your comrades
to escape the wrath of Zeus, not unless
my own heart prompted me to do it.