![]() It was the cave of a son of Poseidon and a nymphe named Thoosa, an enormous man-eating wild man named Polyphemos (Polyphemus), who had one eye in his forehead. Not far from the sea was a cave, which he entered with a flask of wine given him by Maron. He left the other ships at the neighbouring island, took one in to the land of the Kyklopes, and went ashore with twelve companions. "He then sailed for the land of the Kyklopes (Cyclopes), and put to shore. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES POLYPHEMUS & ODYSSEUS Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus, Greco-Roman mosaic C4th A.D., Villa Romana del Casale 383, &c.) The Homeric Cyclopes are no longer the servants of Zeus, but they disregard him. 200.) Homer does not distinctly state that all of the Cyclopes were one-eyed, but Polyphemus, the principal among them, is described as having only one eye on his forehead. They had no laws or political institutions, and each lived with his wives and children in a cave of a mountain, and ruled over them with arbitrary power. They neglected agriculture, and the fruits of the field were reaped by them without labour. In the Homeric poems the Cyclopes are a gigantic, insolent, and lawless race of shepherds, who lived in the south-western part of Sicily, and devoured human beings. ![]() The celebrated Cyclops in the island of Thrinacia, was a son of Poseidon, and the nymph Thoosa. GALATOS (by Galateia) (Bacchylides Frag 59) POSEIDON (Philostratus Elder 2.18, Ovid Metamorphoses 13.857, Hyginus Fabulae 125, Valerius Flaccus 4.104) OFFSPRING POSEIDON & THOOSA (Homer Odyssey 1.70, Apollodorus E7.4) She spurned him for the love of the shepherd Akis (Acis), but when the giant spied the pair together he crushed the boy beneath a stone. Polyphemos also loved the nereid-nymph Galateia and wooed her with music and song. The blinded giant tried to prevent Odysseus' flight by tossing boulders at his ship but, failing that, prayed to his father Poseidon to exact revenge. To escape the hero plied him with wine and as he slept plunged a burning stake into his eye. Odysseus encountered him on his return from Troy and became trapped in the giant's cave. POLYPHEMOS (Polyphemus) was a man-eating kyklops (cyclops) giant-a monster with a single, orb-shaped eye in the middle of his forehead. Many Words ( poly, phêmê) Cyclops Polyphemus blinded by Odysseus, Athenian black-figure oinochoe C6th B.C., Musée du Louvre
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