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Polyphemus

In Greek mythology, a Cyclops (one‐eyed giant) and son of Poseidon, dwelling on the west coast of Sicily. He imprisoned Odysseus and his 12 companions in his cave on their homeward journey, and was blinded during their escape. His story forms the subject of Book Eleven of Homer's Odyssey.

After capturing the men, Polyphemus began to devour them, two at each meal, but Odysseus made the Cyclops drunk with wine from Ismarus in Thrace, and put out his eye with a burning pole. The survivors escaped by hanging under the bellies of the Cyclop's sheep when they were let out of the cave the following morning.

Poseidon, enraged by their treatment of his son, ensured that their voyage home was long and hazardous.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
 
 

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