What is the significance of odysseus telling the cyclops his name is nobody ?

Because he had a plan to blind the cyclops and escape. So with that being said if he told the cyclops his name than that would ruin his whole plan.

First lets do some background research. Cyclops are very mean, and they dont like to follow rules. When cyclops yell out, they also call their family/ other cyclops to help them out.

So when Odysseus and his men stabbed Polyphemus in the eye to make him blind, He yelled out "Nobody hurt me" So when all the other cyclops heard that they thought, oh well. i guess no ones hurting him. so they didnt go to help the hurt Polyphemus.

I hope this confusion makes sense.

tip: if you didnt know already, the cyclops name is Polyphemus.

I hope you get a passing score on that test. So sorry im so late.

from yours ~chealafi~

honestly, school in itself just seems to be a huge waste of time. a lot of people graduate but still end up not doing anything in college anyways, which really makes the whole point of graduating seem useless. i'd rather not bring anyone's hopes up then. what i'd recommend is for whoever's reading this to simply drop out.

i mean, kanye did it. he said something along the lines of, "don't let society tell you what to do." now, he's obviously a very successful person, and since his album is called the college dropout i guess he never really had to go through all that nonsense in order to become a millionaire. the same goes for anyone else then.

what is the context here? we need to know what story you're talking about : )