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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.
When asked by other Cyclopes why he is screaming, Polyphemus replies that " Nobody " is hurting him, so the others assume that, " If alone as you are none uses violence on you, why, there is no avoiding the sickness sent by great Zeus ; so you had better pray to your father, the lord Poseidon ".
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 isNobody ’ so that he will not be identified as the one who blinded the Cyclops.
There is also Triton ( the merman ), Polyphemus ( the cyclops ) and, finally, Alebion and Bergion and Otos and Ephialtae ( the giants ).
In the Odyssey, Poseidon is notable for his hatred of Odysseus who blinded the god's son, the cyclops Polyphemus.
Polyphemus (; Polyphēmos ) is the gigantic one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes.
Eventually they find that the large cave is the home of the great Cyclops Polyphemus.
The other cyclopes think Polyphemus is making a fool out of them or that it must be a matter with the gods, and they grumble and go away.
Polyphemus is described as using a “ lopped pine tree ” as a walking staff.
Polyphemus hears them and gives chase into the sea, but is unable to reach them.
Polyphemus is often portrayed with two empty eye sockets and his actual eye located in the middle on his forehead.
Polyphemus is shown doing all of the things that a proper Roman suitor would do — trims his beard, composes a poem etc .— which encourage the reader / hearer to cheer for him, even though his courtship is doomed to fail.
Ovid's self-conscious and urbane report appears to be suggesting in his uncharacteristic depiction of Polyphemus that it is possible for the way that readers view a character to drastically change over time.
The story of Odysseus and Polyphemus is recognizable in the folklore of many other European groups.
* Polyphemus is also the subject of a series of sculptures made by the French artist August Rodin about 1888.
* Polyphemus is also the name of the planet which the moon Pandora orbits in James Cameron's Avatar.

Polyphemus and be
) Being drunk, Polyphemus thinks of it as a real name and says that he will eat " no one " last and that this shall be his guest-gift — a vicious insult both to the tradition of hospitality and to Odysseus.
* Polyphemus will be featured in the 2013 PlayStation 3 video game, God of War: Ascension.
Fearing he may be next, Odysseus got Polyphemus drunk on wine until he fell asleep, taking advantage of the opportunity to burn out his one eye with a red-hot iron.

Polyphemus and blind
Virgil's account acts as a sequel to Homer's, with the fate of Polyphemus as a blind cyclops after the escape of Odysseus and his crew.
Sinbad hatches a plan to blind the beast ( again, obvious parallels with the story of Polyphemus in Homer's Odyssey ), with the two red-hot iron spits with which the monster has been kebabing and roasting the ship's company.

Polyphemus and there
Odysseus and his men were blown far off course to lands unknown to the Achaeans ; there Odysseus had many adventures, including the famous encounter with the Cyclops Polyphemus, and an audience with the seer Teiresias in Hades.

Polyphemus and was
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.
Nicholas Poussin's painting Landscape with Polyphemus was the subject of a famous essay by William Hazlitt.
* Polyphemus was featured in the 1955 film Ulysses where he was played by Oscar Andriani, as well as the 1997 TV miniseries The Odyssey where he was played by Reid Asato.
The costume for Polyphemus was provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop with David Barclay operating the face of Polyphemus.
* Polyphemus was also featured in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Sea of Monsters.
In Greek mythology, Thoosa or Thoösa (, ) was a sea nymph associated with swiftness, and the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the god Poseidon ( Odyssey, book I, lines 70 – 72 ).
He was marooned on Sicily when Odysseus fled Polyphemus the cyclops, until Aeneas arrived and took him to Italy with his company of refugee Trojans.
Having previously escaped death at the hand of Eurypylus ( son of Telephus ), he was devoured by Polyphemus.
Theocritus was from Sicily, as he refers to Polyphemus, the cyclops in the Odyssey, as his " countryman.
Their king, Polyphemus, was a huge giant who cornered Odysseus and some of his crew into a cave, where some were killed and eaten for supper.
* 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.
* The second Polyphemus was a wooden paddlewheel sloop launched in 1840 and wrecked off Jutland in 1856.
* The third Polyphemus was a torpedo ram in use from 1881 to 1903.
A fourth Polyphemus was to have been an Centaur class aircraft carrier of 18, 300 tons, 650 ft long, but was cancelled in October 1945.
The Town class cruiser Southampton of 1936 was named Polyphemus during construction.
The long basin of water was built and flanked by plane trees, and the sculptures of the giant Polyphemus surprising the lovers Acis and Galatea, by French classical sculptor Auguste Ottin, were added to the grotto's rockwork.
In the palace's inner courtyard is a Roman bust depicting Polyphemus, the Cyclops from whose cave Ulysses escaped ; it was found in the nymphaeum of the Imperial villa's gardens, an artificially constructed grotto of the crater lake's outlet.
The Royal Navy's only example was HMS Polyphemus which entered service in 1882.
Its primary armament was torpedoes, with four side-firing tubes and one forward-firing tube in the centre of the bow-mounted ram, like the eye of a Cyclops — hence the ship's name, after Polyphemus.
The real torpedo ram HMS Polyphemus was a smaller type of ship ( 2, 600 tons versus 13, 000 tons for HMS Ocean ) but fast, heavily armoured for her size and capable of operating in shallow coastal waters ; her hull was low in the water with a raft-like superstructure mounting six 1-inch Nordenfelt guns, again very much unlike an ironclad battleship.

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