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Greeks and the Cyclops are both highly significant people in the story of the Odyssey. However, their lifestyles and ways of living are greatly diverse. Not only are their personalities unique from each other, however, their habitats and the environments they live in, also differ. In the end, it is blatant to anyone that Homer is attempting to prove that the Greeks and Cyclops are greatly dissimilar people, and should not be taken as the same.
The Cyclops were beasts that trusted the everlasting gods. They never planted with their own hands or plowed the soil. They had no meeting place for the council, and no laws. They lived in their caverns ruling their wives and children only, and without a care at all for any neighbor. The Cyclops resided on an island that stretches flat across the harbor. The island is covered with thick, broad woods. These woods are the locality of where hundreds of goats breed. This area is solitarily home of the Cyclops. No other......

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