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.

* Polyphemus first appeared in comics in the 1943 Fiction House comic Jumbo Comics # 52.

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

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

He was initially first officer of the 64-gun frigate Hellas ( formerly Hope ), then second in command of the corvette Hydra.

*, 64-gun third rate, as first lieutenant under Captain Francis Reynolds ( later the Earl of Ducie )

A contemporary diagram illustrating a first and a third-rate ship

Theophrastus ' Enquiry into Plants was first published in a Latin translation by Theodore Gaza, at Treviso, 1483 ; in its original Greek it first appeared from the press of Aldus Manutius at Venice, 1495 – 98, from a third-rate manuscript, which, like the majority of the manuscripts that were sent to printers ' workshops in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, has disappeared.

So, while first rates and second rates were both larger and more powerful, the third-rate ships were in a real sense the optimal configuration.

* The first Blake, launched in 1808, was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line.

* The first HMS Goliath ( 1781 ) was a 74-gun third-rate that fought in the Battle of the Nile.

* The first Venerable, launched in 1784, was a 74-gun third-rate.

A first -, second-or third-rate ship was regarded as a " ship-of-the-line ".

* The first Belleisle was a French 74-gun third-rate ship of the line named Formidable captured in 1795 near Belle Île.

* The first Leviathan was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1750 as Northumberland, renamed in 1777 and sunk in 1780 in the Atlantic.

* The first Implacable, launched in 1795 as the French ship Duguay-Trouin, was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line.

His first experience was bitter ; his ship, the 74-gun third-rate Mars, was unenviably prominent in the Spithead mutiny.

* The first Guerriere was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, originally the French ship Peuple Souverain, captured on 2 July 1798 at the Battle of the Nile.

The letter said that the statement, first made by a former Smithsonian curator, that " Steamtown was a second-rate collection on a third-rate site ," was unfounded.

After starring in a theater production of Hamlet in the spring of 1999, Choi took on his first lead role as a husband who discovers his wife's infidelity in Happy End, and in early 2001 starred as a third-rate gangster opposite Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung in the cult melodrama Failan.