Polyphemus and the Cyclops

Odysseus and his shipmates wound up sailing by a small wooded island where they decided to stop and scrounge up some food, water and provisions for the journey ahead. While looking around, they found a huge sheep pen outside of a cave with lots of food inside. The sailors didn't know that the island was the home of a group of cyclopes, and they were intruding in polyphemus cave. It takes the human body two days to fully digest a meal. Your stomach can hold about four cups of chewed up food. There is, however, a real ancient city of troy located on the northwest coast of turkey, which has been

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