"Troy, after a raid on Ismarus in the land of the Cicones, he and his twelve ships are driven off course by storms. They visit the lethargic Lotus-Eaters and are captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus while visiting his island. After Polyphemus eats several of his men, Polyphemus and Odysseus have a discussion and Odysseus tells Polyphemus his name is ""Nobody"". Odysseus takes a barrel of wine, and the Cyclops drinks it, falling asleep. Odysseus and his men take a wooden stake, ignite it with the remaining wine, and blind him. While they escape, Polyphemus cries in pain, and the other"
"Cyclops A cyclops ( ; , ""Kyklōps""; plural cyclopes ; , ""Kyklōpes""), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the center of his forehead. The word ""cyclops"" literally means ""round-eyed"" or ""circle-eyed"". Hesiod described three one-eyed cyclopes who served as builders, blacksmiths, and craftsmen: Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, the sons of Uranus and Gaia, brothers of the Titans. Homer described another group of mortal herdsmen or shepherd cyclopes, the sons of Poseidon. Other accounts were written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic"
"woman who can turn men into animals: Ishtar (for Gilgamesh) and Circe (for Odysseus). In the ""Odyssey"", Odysseus blinds a giant Cyclops named Polyphemus, an incident which bears similarities to Gilgamesh's slaying of Humbaba in the ""Epic of Gilgamesh"". Both Gilgamesh and Odysseus visit the Underworld and both find themselves unhappy whilst living in an otherworldly paradise in the presence of an attractive woman: Siduri (for Gilgamesh) and Calypso (for Odysseus). Finally, both heroes have an opportunity for immortality but miss it (Gilgamesh when he loses the plant, and Odysseus when he leaves Calypso's island). In the Qumran scroll known"
"(advice which Odysseus' men did not follow which led to Odysseus' men getting killed by Zeus' thunderbolts during a storm). Connections with the paired serpents on the caduceus are often made (Brisson 1976:55–57). Tiresias In Greek mythology, Tiresias (; , ""Teiresias"") was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd and the nymph Chariclo. Tiresias participated fully in seven generations in Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself. Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson, fall into three groups:"
"the entrance, Odysseus supplies Polyphemus with a special wine until he falls asleep, and blinds him by drilling the Cyclops's own wooden walking stick into his eye. Polyphemus opens the cave boulder and the Greeks escape to their ship; Polyphemus calls to the other Cyclopes for help and Odysseus, from the distance of his ship, begins to taunt and to jeer at him. Homer (Pope's translation) says: Odysseus boasts that it was ""Odysseus...Son of Laertes"" who had burnt out Polyphemus's eye. Polyphemus invokes the vengeance of his father Poseidon, and: Cyclopean Isles The Cyclopean Isles (Italian:""Isole Ciclopi""), noted for their"
"pray to your father, the lord Poseidon"". The most evident flaw that Odysseus sports is that of his arrogance and his pride, or ""hubris."" As he sails away from the island of the Cyclopes, he shouts his name and boasts that nobody can defeat the ""Great Odysseus"". The Cyclops then throws the top half of a mountain at him and prays to his father, Poseidon, saying that Odysseus has blinded him. This enrages Poseidon, causing the god to thwart Odysseus' homecoming for a very long time. The ""Odyssey"" is written in dactylic hexameter. It opens ""in medias res"", in the"
"into her bedchamber and rapes her. The text implies that Oenopion blinds him on the spot. Latin sources add that Oenopion was the son of Dionysus. Dionysus sent satyrs to put Orion into a deep sleep so he could be blinded. One source tells the same story but converts Oenopion into Minos of Crete. It adds that an oracle told Orion that his sight could be restored by walking eastward and that he found his way by hearing the Cyclops' hammer, placing a Cyclops as a guide on his shoulder; it does not mention Cabeiri or Lemnos—this is presumably the"
"As he sails off with his men, Odysseus boastfully reveals his real name, an act of hubris that was to cause problems for him later. Polyphemus prays to his father, Poseidon, for revenge and casts huge rocks towards the ship, which Odysseus barely escapes. The story reappears in later Classical literature. In ""Cyclops"", the 5th century BC play by Euripides, a chorus of satyrs offers comic relief from the grisly story of how Polyphemus is punished for his impious behaviour in not respecting the rites of hospitality. In his Latin epic, Virgil describes how Aeneas observes blind Polyphemus as he"
"Homer, Euripides, and Hesiod. One example in a story from Georgia, describes two brothers trapped in the cave of ""One-eye"". They take the wooden spit from One-eye's fire, heat it up, stab it into his eye and escape. Cyclops A cyclops ( ; , ""Kyklōps""; plural cyclopes ; , ""Kyklōpes""), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the center of his forehead. The word ""cyclops"" literally means ""round-eyed"" or ""circle-eyed"". Hesiod described three one-eyed cyclopes who served as builders, blacksmiths, and craftsmen: Brontes, Steropes, and"
"the blinding episode appears on an amphora that was created by the Polyphemos Painter c. 680–650 B.C., and the artist shows the blinding stake has two prongs, as though two eyes are being targeted. In the ""Theogony"" by Hesiod, the cyclopes – Brontes (""thunderer""), Steropes (""lightning"") and Arges (""bright"") (Greek: Βρόντης, Στερόπης and Ἄργης) – were the primordial sons of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth) and brothers of the Hekatonkheires and the Titans. As such, they were blood-related to the Titan and Olympian gods and goddesses. They were giants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead and"
"eye, the Cyclops runs out of his cave, yelling to the other cyclopes that ""No-one has hurt me!"", which leads the other cyclopes to take no action under the assumption that Polyphemus blinded himself by accident, allowing Odysseus and his men to escape. Some of the earliest double entendres are found in the Exeter Book, or Codex exoniensis, at Exeter Cathedral in England. The book was copied around AD 975. In addition to the various poems and stories found in the book, there are also numerous riddles. The Anglo-Saxons did not reveal the answers to the riddles, but they have"
"Tiresias In Greek mythology, Tiresias (; , ""Teiresias"") was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd and the nymph Chariclo. Tiresias participated fully in seven generations in Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself. Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson, fall into three groups: one, in two episodes, recounts Tiresias' sex-change and his encounter with Zeus and Hera; a second group recounts his blinding by Athena; a third, all but lost, seems to have recounted the misadventures"
"that his name was 'Noman' or 'Nobody' (Greek ""outis"" or ""mētis""), so when the Cyclops yells out who was responsible for blinding him, it sounds like he is saying ""No man blinded me"". In addition to this pun, there is a less easily translated joke based on the fact that the form of ""no man"" (""mētis"") is identical to the word for cleverness or art. The Satyrs have some fun with him over it. Odysseus makes the mistake, however, of blurting out his true name as a result of his big ego. Although he successfully makes his escape, the rest"
"is drunk, he says he is seeing gods and begins to call Silenus Ganymede (the beautiful prince Zeus made his immortal cup bearer). The Cyclops then steals Silenus away into his cave, with the implication that he is about do something sexual to him. Odysseus decides to execute the next phase of his plan. The Satyrs initially offer to help, but later become afraid and offer a variety of absurd excuses when the time for action actually comes. The annoyed Odysseus gets his crew to help instead, and they burn out the Cyclops' eye. He had told the Cyclops earlier"
"Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner. It depicts a scene from Homer's ""Odyssey"", showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus, one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded, who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side. Additional details include the Trojan Horse, a scene from Virgil's ""Aeneid"", on one of the flags and the horses of Apollo rising above the horizon. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1829. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1856, the painting"
"this ""Nobody"" last of all. With that, he falls into a drunken sleep. Odysseus had meanwhile hardened a wooden stake in the fire and drives it into Polyphemus' eye. When Polyphemus shouts for help from his fellow giants, saying that ""Nobody"" has hurt him, they think Polyphemus is being afflicted by divine power and recommend prayer as the answer. In the morning, the blind Cyclops lets the sheep out to graze, feeling their backs to ensure that the men are not escaping. However, Odysseus and his men have tied themselves to the undersides of the animals and so get away."
"Polyphemus (Argonaut) In Greek mythology, Polyphemus (Πολύφημος) was the son of Elatus (or Poseidon) and Hippea. The name of Polyphemus is one linked to the Cyclops encountered by Odysseus, it was also the given name to a Greek hero. Polyphemus was also an Argonaut in Greek mythology. According to one source, he was married to Laonome, sister of Heracles. As a Lapith, he was remembered for having fought against the Centaurs in the days of his youth. Years later, he joined the expedition of the Argonauts. During their stay in Bithynia, Polyphemus was the one to hear Hylas cry as"
"felt that because of his victory over the Chimera, and because he thought he was a god he deserved to fly to Mount Olympus, the realm of the gods. However, this presumption angered Zeus and he sent a gadfly to sting the horse, causing Bellerophon to fall all the way back to Earth. Pegasus completed the flight to Olympus where Zeus used him as a pack horse for his thunderbolts. On the Plain of Aleion (""Wandering"") in Cilicia, Bellerophon (who had fallen into a thorn bush causing him to become blind) lived out his life in misery, grieving and shunning"
"signed by Reni, with dating of 1638 related to the figure of Polyphemus. Other research links this work to a lost canvas depicting Ariadne also by Reni. The painting depicts the scene from the Odyssey where the blinded Cyclops, in anger starts to gather boulders to toss at the ships of Odysseus in the distance. He perches in a diagonal to the canvas with a gray horizon. A more active depiction of the subject had been frescoed earlier in the Gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, at which Reni had worked under Annibale Carracci. Polyphemus (Guido Reni) The Polyphemus is a"
"Polyphemus Polyphemus (; ""Polyphēmos"") is the giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's ""Odyssey"". His name means ""abounding in songs and legends"". Polyphemus first appears as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the ""Odyssey"". Some later Classical writers link his name with the nymph Galatea and present him in a different light. In Homer's epic, Odysseus lands on the island of the Cyclops during his journey home from the Trojan War and, together with some of his men, enters a cave filled with provisions. When the giant Polyphemus"
"Oedipus (Euripides) Oedipus ( or ; , ""Oidípous"") is a play by the 5th-century BCE Athenian dramatist Euripides. The play is now lost except for some fragments. What survives of the play covers similar ground as Sophocles' acclaimed ""Oedipus Rex"", but scholars and historians have found there are significant differences. In ""Oedipus Rex"", the title character blinds himself upon learning his true parentage, accidentally killing his father and marrying his mother Jocasta. In Euripides' play, however, it appears Oedipus is blinded by a servant of his father Laius, Oedipus' predecessor as king of Thebes. Furthermore, Euripides' play implies Oedipus was"
"poems, and died at Ephesus. According to the ""Suda"", Philoxenus composed twenty-four dithyrambs and a lyric poem on the descendants of Aeacus. In his hands the dithyramb seems to have been a sort of comic opera, and the music, composed by himself, of a debased character. His masterpiece was the ""Cyclops"", a pastoral burlesque on the love of the Cyclops for the fair Galatea, written to avenge himself upon Dionysius, who was wholly or partially blind of one eye. It was parodied by Aristophanes in the ""Plutus"" (388 BC). Another work of Philoxenus (sometimes attributed to Philoxenus of Leucas, a"
"is on display in room 34. Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner. It depicts a scene from Homer's ""Odyssey"", showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus, one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded, who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side. Additional details include the Trojan Horse, a scene from Virgil's ""Aeneid"", on one of the flags and the horses of Apollo rising above the horizon. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1829. Acquired by the"
"complete extant satyr play is Euripides's ""Cyclops"", which is a burlesque of a scene from the eighth-century BC epic poem, the ""Odyssey"", in which Odysseus is captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus in a cave. In the play, Polyphemus has captured a tribe of satyrs led by Silenus, who is described as their ""Father"", and forced them to work for him as his slaves. After Polyphemus captures Odysseus, Silenus attempts to play Odysseus and Polyphemus off each other for his own benefit, primarily by tricking them into giving him wine. As in the original scene, Odysseus manages to blind Polyphemus and"
"branch moving on its own and blinding the giant, the giant is immediately blinded by a burning branch. Though it happens off-stage and seems to have been brought about by Odysseus. The Cyclops is considered cannibalistic in that he includes humans in his diet, but there is a distinction: He will not eat satyrs or his fellow cyclops. This play offers an eccentric view of a mix of worlds: It is contemporary, Homeric, and fantastical. It joins the ribald aspects of a satyr play, with a setting that is contemporary to its fifth-century audience. It mixes the myth of Dionysus's"
"one above another. There is an ancient tradition that the islands at one time formed part of the mainland of Sicily. Homer has a curious story about the manner in which they became detached, towards the end of the ninth book of the Odyssey. When Odysseus visited Sicily it was inhabited by the Cyclopes, said to have had only one eye, on the forehead. Odysseus encounters one of their number, Polyphemus, on his journey home to Ithaca, who kills two of Odysseus's men. Stuck inside Polyphemus's cave because he and his men are unable to move the boulder that blocks"
"to those who had never seen a living elephant. Classical scholars, on the other hand, have long realized that the story of the cyclops was originally a Greek folk tale, which existed independently of the ""Odyssey"" and which only became embedded in it at a later date. Similar stories are found in cultures across Europe and the Middle East. According to this explanation, the cyclops was originally simply a giant or ogre, much like Humbaba in the ""Epic of Gilgamesh"". The detail about it having one eye was simply invented in order to explain how the creature was so easily"
"Méliès. This combines with the Calypso episode and employs special effects. Other films that include it have been the 1911 ""Odissea"" and the 1955 ""Ulysses"" (see external links below). Polyphemus and Odysseus Polyphemus, Galatea, and Acis Specific artworks discussed above Specific opera and filmworks discussed above Polyphemus Polyphemus (; ""Polyphēmos"") is the giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's ""Odyssey"". His name means ""abounding in songs and legends"". Polyphemus first appears as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the ""Odyssey"". Some later Classical writers link his name with"
"Homer's tale: The shipwreck, the goatskin of Maron's wine, the blinding of the monocular giant, and the pun on the word ""Nobody"", all occur in Euripides' play and also in Homer's ""Odyssey"". ""Cyclops"" is the only complete satyr play that has survived, due to continuous copying through the ages. Sizable fragments of other satyr plays have been discovered, like Sophocles' ""Trackers"" and Aeschylus' ""Net-fishers"".""Cyclops"" is found in two manuscripts: The ""Codex Laurentianus"", or Florentinus, xxxii. 2. It appears to have been written out the fourteenth century in a number of different handwriting styles. It is kept in the Laurentian Library"
"Cyclops (Marvel Comics) Cyclops (Scott Summers) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and is a founding member of the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in the comic book ""The X-Men"" #1 (September 1963). Cyclops is a member of a subspecies of humans known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. Cyclops can emit powerful beams of energy from his eyes. He cannot control the beams without the aid of special eyewear which he must wear at all times. He is typically considered the"
"of the troubles Odysseus faces on his voyage home are related to this act, as he then faces the wrath of Poseidon, the father of the Cyclops. Cyclops (play) Cyclops (, ""Kyklōps"") is an ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides. This satyr play would be the fourth part of the Euripides' tetralogy, performed for the dramatic festival of 5th Century B.C. Athens. A satyr play was a story usually taken from epic poetry or mythology, and then adorned with a chorus of satyrs. The satyrs are weak and useless when it comes to confronting the Cyclops; the satyrs are indeed"
"sisters Euryale and Stheno. She eventually met the gaze of Poseidon. Athena took notice of this, and cursed Medusa, transforming her hair into snakes and giving her a deadly gaze that turns any who look into her eyes to stone. The hero Perseus was given the task of slaying Medusa and taking her head. After using her decapitated head for his own use, Perseus threw it into the sea as he believed it too dangerous to keep. At some point before Medusa's death, she mated with the cyclops Polyphemus and gave birth to the serpentine giant Cyclon. The god of"
"to uncharted waters. They landed in the land of the Lotus-eaters. There a scouting party ate from the lotus tree and forgot everything of home. The rest then set sail and landed at the land of Polyphemus, son of Poseidon. After a few were killed by him Odysseus blinded him and managed to escape, but earned Poseidon's wrath. They went next to the isle of Aeolus, god of winds. Odysseus was received hospitably by the Aeolus who gave him a favorable wind and a bag that contained the unfavorable wind. When Odysseus fell asleep in sight of Ithaca his crew"