740 BC, appears to refer to a text of the Iliad ; likewise, illustrations seemingly inspired by the Polyphemus episode in the Odyssey are found on Samos, Mykonos and in Italy, dating from the first quarter of the seventh century BC.

Polyphemus then eats two men after killing them by removing their brains as his meal the first night.

Odysseus in the cave of Polyphemus by Jacob Jordaens, first half of 17th century.

Ovid's first century Roman audience would surely have had a basic knowledge of Polyphemus ' role as an uncivilized cannibal in Book IX of the Odyssey, and this episode gives an amusing contrast to that characterization.

* The first Polyphemus was a 64-gun third-rate launched in 1782, active in the Napoleonic Wars, converted to a powder hulk in 1813 and broken up in 1827.

They released their first two albums, Wish I Could Dream It Again and Arte Novecento, through Italian label Polyphemus.

* Although unnamed, Polyphemus appeared in the TV mini-series The Odyssey played by Reid Asato.

Polyphemus ( 1987 ) is a collection of deft science fiction and horror stories published by Arkham House.

* Polyphemus, Michael Shea ( Arkham House )

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# Aeneas ' Revenge, with the Tragedy of Polyphemus, by Henry Chettle, February 1598-9.

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* Polyphemus, until Angel: After the Fall # 44

* In the Odyssey ( ix. 345 – 359 ), Polyphemus likens the wine given to him by Odysseus to ambrosia and nectar.

Although some scenes from the Odyssey remained favorites of the vase-painters, notably the visually dramatic episode of Polyphemus, the Circe episode was rarely depicted.

The most notable of them are Thetis, wife of Peleus and mother of Achilles ; Amphitrite, wife of Poseidon ; and Galatea, love of the Cyclops Polyphemus.

They visited the lethargic Lotus-Eaters who gave two of his men their fruit which caused them to forget their homecoming, and then were captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus, escaping by blinding him with a wooden stake.

While they were escaping, however, Odysseus foolishly told Polyphemus his identity, and Polyphemus told his father, Poseidon, that Odysseus had blinded him.

His disguises take forms both physical ( altering his appearance ) and verbal, such as telling the Cyclops Polyphemus that his name is, " Nobody " or " nothing ", then escaping after blinding Polyphemus.

Released by the intercession of his patroness Athena, through the aid of Hermes, he departs, but his raft is destroyed by his divine enemy Poseidon, who is angry because Odysseus blinded his son, Polyphemus.

Odysseus ' narrative, Book 9, featuring his encounter with the cyclops Polyphemus, is traditionally called the Cyclopeia.

Odysseus is also able to disguise his identity, though not physically, by telling Polyphemus his name is ‘ Nobody ’ so that he will not be identified as the one who blinded the Cyclops.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon is notable for his hatred of Odysseus who blinded the god's son, the cyclops Polyphemus.

Odysseus and his men blinding the cyclops Polyphemus ( detail of a proto-attic amphora, c. 650 BC, museum of Eleusis )

Polyphemus (; Polyphēmos ) is the gigantic one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes.

Polyphemus plays a pivotal role in Homer's Odyssey.

Eventually they find that the large cave is the home of the great Cyclops Polyphemus.

When Polyphemus returns home with his flocks and finds Odysseus and his men, he blocks the cave entrance with a great stone, trapping the remaining Greeks inside.

The next morning, Polyphemus kills and eats two more of Odysseus ' men for his breakfast and exits the cave to graze his sheep.

He spots a rather large unseasoned olive wood club that Polyphemus left behind the previous night and, with the help of his men, sharpens the narrow end to a fine point.

That night, Polyphemus returns from herding his flock of sheep.

At that point, Odysseus offers Polyphemus the strong and undiluted wine given to him by Maron.

These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

approaching shore their masts appeared first.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Four years after the publication of The History Of England, the first volume of Trevelyan's Queen Anne trilogy appeared.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

The first report in this continuing series appeared in the September 1960 issue of the Journal.

He appeared in the hopples about November 14, was treated for worms on the 18th, the latter date being the first time he struck a real pace.

The first eight of these eighteen statements, which received at least one-half of the votes, were duplicated to form an analysis checklist for the particular manager, and when this particular manager roleplayed in other situations, the members checked any items that appeared.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

In the orchestra we hear first a hushed, hesitant pizzicato figure, then the insistent `` police '' motif as it appeared in the opening scene.

The first section of this publication appeared in 1948 and the last supplement in 1960.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

Alvin Ailey and Carmen De Lavallade appeared in the first New York performance of Mr. Ailey's `` Roots Of The Blues '', a work given its premiere three weeks ago at the Boston Arts Festival.

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

Peasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural society, and the railway and growing literacy facilitated the work of roving organizers.

The quantum number n first appeared in the Bohr model where it determines the radius of each circular electron orbit.

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:

Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".