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- Polyphemus – Mythopedia
Polyphemus was a son of Poseidon and one of the feared Sicilian Cyclopes He was eventually blinded by Odysseus
- Odysseus – Mythopedia
There, the brutal Cyclops Polyphemus captured Odysseus and a few of his men, trapping them in his cave Polyphemus picked off Odysseus’ men two by two, killing and eating them But Odysseus managed to escape in the end by getting the Cyclops drunk on wine and then blinding him with a sharpened stake when he fell asleep
- Cyclops (Play) – Mythopedia
Euripides’ Cyclops is the only surviving satyr play from antiquity It is a burlesque retelling of the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus
- Cyclopes – Mythopedia
The Cyclopes were huge creatures whose defining characteristic was a single large eye in the middle of their forehead There were three different kinds of Cyclopes: the Uranian Cyclopes, who fashioned Zeus’ lightning bolts; the savage Sicilian Cyclopes; and the Cyclopes who built the walls of cities such as Mycenae
- Poseidon – Mythopedia
Poseidon was a powerful (and unruly) Olympian god He presided over the seas, seafarers, earthquakes, and horses and was easily recognized by his fearsome trident
- Odyssey: Book 9 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The giant Polyphemus and his cave described; the usage Ulysses and his companions met with there; and, lastly, the method and artifice by which he escaped Then thus Ulysses: “Thou whom first in sway, As first in virtue, these thy realms obey; How sweet the products of a peaceful reign! The heaven-taught poet and enchanting strain;
- Silenus – Mythopedia
Silenus was the oldest, wisest, and wildest of the satyrs (or silens)—half-human, half-animal creatures in Dionysus’ drunken band of revelers Silenus was sometimes said to have been the tutor of the young Dionysus
- Nereids – Mythopedia
The Nereids were the fifty daughters of the sea gods Nereus and Doris Numbered among the nymphs—female divinities who took the form of beautiful young women—the Nereids were widely regarded as kind and helpful sea deities The most famous among them were Amphitrite, Galatea, and Thetis
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