\paperw2700 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \up2 \cf7 Heading back to the north, \b \cf15 \ATXht12100 Ulysses\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 ' ships reached the land of the \b \cf15 \ATXht10336 Cyclopes\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , monstrous giants with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads. Leaving the fleet in a safe harbor on the nearby Island of Goats, Ulysses set off with a ship and twelve men for the cave of \b \cf15 \ATXht11631 Polyphemus
\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , the son of \b \cf15 \ATXht5 Poseidon\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , who devoured six of his companions. After befuddling the Cyclops with wine, the hero blinded him with a sharpened and heated olive stake and escaped from the cave by lashing himself a
nd his companions underneath the bellies of rams in the giant's flock of sheep.