Polyphemus Greek The savage, one-eyed giant of Homer's Odyssey.
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Polyphemus 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.
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