Pictures of Polyphemus and Odysseus
In these pictures of Polyphemus and Odysseus you'll see the Cyclops represented as a giant. What I couldn't understand is: how big were the sheep and goats? Were they gigantic (so as a person could easily hide underneath? Or were they just normal sheep?
Here's an image of the enraged giant, but with two normal eyes:
Polyphemus
Tibaldi
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And here it is as we know him, one-eyed and all.
Polyphemus the...
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Ulysses in the...
Jacob Jordaens
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Mosaic, Ulysses...
Richard Ashworth
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In the next image, you'll see that Polyphemus has two normal eyes and a third one on his forehead.
Polyphemus the...
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Odysseus Made...
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While the drunk Polyphemus was sleeping, Odyssesu and his men took a ponty stake, kept it in the embers until it was hot and then took the Cyclops' eye out with it (now it makes sense that he had only one eye, otherwise, even if they managed to take out one eye, Poyphemus would still have two other eyes and would be awake from the pain, so the hero and his men would have had no chance to get out alive).
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The Blinding of...
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Polyphemus tries to sink the ship with a boulder, guided by Odysseus' voice (who had nothing better to do than boast how he defeated th giant), but misses it.
Ulysses Deriding...
William Turner
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Polyphemus...
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