Polyphemus
Americannoun
noun
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According to the show's curators, elements of Flaxman's sketches can be seen in Turner's painting called Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus – Homer's Odyssey, including outlines of horses in the sunset and the shadow of a cyclops.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The EU says a primitive form of feta is mentioned in the Odyssey, when the hero of the ancient epic takes cheese from the cave of the cyclops Polyphemus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Strange too that the most compelling role is Polyphemus, written for a bass with a huge range of 2 1/2 octaves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2020
Henderson’s totemic character is Polyphemus, the half-divine Cyclops whose appearance in Homer’s “Odyssey” is one of the poem’s most harrowing episodes.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2015
But we are not told that Polyphemus ever loved any maiden except Galatea, or that any maiden ever loved Polyphemus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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