Read the excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey. What theme is best revealed by this conflict? We would entreat you, great Sir, have a care for the gods' courtesy: Zeus will avenge the unoffending guest.' O it's important to use manners in new situations. It is wise to know the enemy you face. O Guests should honor the traditions of their hosts. O Guests should offer gifts to their hosts. He answered this from his brute chest, unmoved: You are a ninny or else you come from the other end of nowhere, telling me, mind the gods! We Cyclopes care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus.