The Exodus and the wilderness wanderings lie in the distant past. In "The Odyssey", Odysseus encounters the monstrous Cyclops Polyphemus in the course of his wanderings. The Hyborians expanded outside their familiar territories, beginning a new age of wanderings and conquests. Aaron plays a leading role in several stories of conflicts during Israel's wilderness wanderings. He is joined on his wanderings by an array of strange companions. The narrative is composed of vignettes detailing the narrator's wanderings around the creek. In their wanderings, they come upon men sleeping in cursed wolf skins. Here, Aeneas ends his account of his wanderings to Dido. Arjuna led the armed forces which followed the horse around its random wanderings. During his wanderings he met the sage Vasistha. Clairmont remained in the Shelley household in their wanderings across Europe. Cadmus came in the course of his wanderings to Delphi, where he consulted the oracle. The rabbi answered only that he be able to join Elijah in his wanderings. Inez is annoyed at the boulevards and bistros and Gil's wanderings. An even more complex example comes from Yeats's "The Wanderings of Oisin".