Read the excerpt from the odyssey. 'aye he'll smash our timbers and our heads together! ' 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! ' what motivates odysseus to reveal his name and put his men in more danger? anger and pride gratitude and relief weakness and fear joy and excitement