Polyphemus – Mythopedia Polyphemus’ showdown with Odysseus was a common subject for painters, potters, and sculptors from the very beginning, with the myth of Polyphemus and Galatea becoming popular later on [4] Family Unlike the Uranian Cyclopes, who were sons of Gaia and Uranus, Polyphemus was the son of the sea god Poseidon and Thoosa, a daughter of Phorcys [5]
Cyclops (Play) – Mythopedia Euripides’ Cyclops is the only surviving satyr play from antiquity It is a burlesque retelling of the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus
Odyssey: Book 9 (Full Text) - Mythopedia The giant Polyphemus and his cave described; the usage Ulysses and his companions met with there; and, lastly, the method and artifice by which he escaped Then thus Ulysses: “Thou whom first in sway, As first in virtue, these thy realms obey; How sweet the products of a peaceful reign! The heaven-taught poet and enchanting strain;
Cyclopes – Mythopedia The Cyclopes were huge creatures whose defining characteristic was a single large eye in the middle of their forehead There were three different kinds of Cyclopes: the Uranian Cyclopes, who fashioned Zeus’ lightning bolts; the savage Sicilian Cyclopes; and the Cyclopes who built the walls of cities such as Mycenae
Poseidon – Mythopedia Poseidon was a powerful (and unruly) Olympian god He presided over the seas, seafarers, earthquakes, and horses and was easily recognized by his fearsome trident
Odysseus – Mythopedia There, the brutal Cyclops Polyphemus captured Odysseus and a few of his men, trapping them in his cave Polyphemus picked off Odysseus’ men two by two, killing and eating them But Odysseus managed to escape in the end by getting the Cyclops drunk on wine and then blinding him with a sharpened stake when he fell asleep
Metamorphoses: Book 13 (Full Text) - Mythopedia The Story of Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea Acis, the lovely youth, whose loss I mourn, From Faunus, and the nymph Symethis born, Was both his parents’ pleasure; but, to me Was all that love could make a lover be The Gods our minds in mutual bands did join: I was his only joy, and he was mine Now sixteen summers the sweet youth had seen;
Nereids – Mythopedia The Nereids were the fifty daughters of the sea gods Nereus and Doris Numbered among the nymphs—female divinities who took the form of beautiful young women—the Nereids were widely regarded as kind and helpful sea deities The most famous among them were Amphitrite, Galatea, and Thetis
Uranian Cyclopes – Mythopedia The Uranian Cyclopes—named Brontes, Steropes, and Arges—were children of Gaia and Uranus and loyal allies of the Olympians Master craftsmen, they frequently fashioned weapons, armor, and ornaments for the gods—most famously, Zeus’ thunderbolts
Phorcys – Mythopedia Phorcys, son of Pontus and Gaia, was a Greek sea god He fathered a host of mythological monsters with his sister-consort Ceto Among these terrifying children—sometimes collectively known as the “Phorcides”—were the Gorgons and the Graeae