Read the excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey by Homer. I would not heed them in my glorying spirit, but let my anger flare and yelled: 'Cyclops, if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes' son, whose home's on Ithaca!' This excerpt best supports the conclusion that Odysseus is