Read the excerpt from the odyssey. 'my ship? poseidon lord, who sets the earth a-tremble, broke it up on the rocks at your land's end. a wind from seaward served him, drove us there. we are survivors, these good men and i.' what motivates odysseus to tell a lie to the cyclops? odysseus knows that poseidon is the cyclops’ father. odysseus is afraid the cyclops will steal their ship. odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of escape. odysseus does not know what has happened to his ship.

The correct answer to the question: What motivates Odysseus to tell a lie to the Cyclops, would be: Odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of escape.

Explanation:

In this particular excerpt from "The Odyssey", by Homer, Odysseus and his crew have ended at the mercy, and "hospitality" of Polyphemus, the Cyclops, a terrible, enormous and cruel cannibal giant with one eye who has no problem in killing his guests and eating them. Fearing that they will all be killed if they do not escape, Odysseus tries to hide from the Cyclops that they still have their ship very much ready to escape, and thus lies telling Polyphemus that the ship has been destroyed by a storm sent by Poseidon, the god of the Sea. This is why the answer is the one above. Odysseus does not want the Cyclops to know their means of escape is still available.

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