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
Greek vase painting, archaic or geometric, Polyphemus, Odysseus, AM Argos, Argm 09
Greek terracotta figurine, Polyphemos reclining and holding a drinking bowl. Late 5th to early 4th century BC, Boeotia. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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)
Cyclopes
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In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes are giant one-eyed creatures. Three kinds of Cyclopes can be distinguished. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Cyclopes are three brothers—Brontes, St
Polyphemus
…Πολύφημος, romanized: Polúphēmos, Epic Greek: ; Latin: Polyphēmus ) 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-voiced", or "very famous". Polyphemus first appeared as…
A first century AD head of a Cyclops from the Colosseum of Rome, Italy
"The Forge of the Cyclopes", a Dutch 16th-century print after a painting by Titian
'Cyclopean' walls at Mycenae.