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Cyclops is an ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, based closely on an episode from the Odyssey. It is likely to have been the fourth part of a tetralogy presented by Euripides in a dramatic festiva
Late Classical terracotta figure depicting Polyphemos reclining while drinking a bowl of wine.
Actor as Papposilenus, around 100 AD, after 4th-century BC original
Odysseus offering wine to Polyphemus
Theatre of Dionysus
Polyphemus
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Polyphemus is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey. His name can mean either "abounding in songs and legends", "many-voice
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…by Silenus, who tells the tale of how he and the satyrs (who are his offspring and followers) have been abused by the giant Cyclops (named by him as Polyphemus (l. 25)). The satyrs are now enslaved to work for the Cyclops, and shepherd his flock (ll. 1–85). Odysseus, who has lost his way on the voyage home…
Greek vase painting, archaic or geometric, Polyphemus, Odysseus, AM Argos, Argm 09
The blinding of Polyphemus, a reconstruction from the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga, 1st century AD
Painting of Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus (from Eleusis Amphora by Polyphemos Painter, Eleusis museum)