Polyphemus
Publié le 22/02/2012
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Greek The savage, one-eyed giant
of Homer's Odyssey. Polyphemus entraps the hero,
Odysseus, and his companions, and devours six of
them. Odysseus blinds Polyphemus's one eye and
with great cunning escapes. Homer's Polyphemus
is identified with the Cyclopes, who were supposed
to have one eye in the middle of their foreheads and
live on the island of Sicily. Polyphemus appears also
in Virgil's Aeneid as a threat to the hero Aeneas and
his crew.