Polyphemus (Cyclops)
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Name (Hebrew)
פוליפמוס (דמות במיתולוגיה היוונית)
Name (Latin)
Polyphemus (Cyclops)
Other forms of name
Polyphemus (Giant)
Polyphemus (Greek mythological character)
Polifemo (Cyclops)
Polyphème (Cyclops)
Πολύφημος (Cyclops)
Polyphēmos (Cyclops)
Polyphem (Cyclops)
Polifemos (Cyclops)
Polifem (Cyclops)
波吕斐摩斯 (Cyclops)
Bolufeimosi (Cyclops)
Polyphemus (Greek mythology)
פוליפמוס (מיתולוגיה יוונית)
Other designation
Cyclopes (Greek mythology)
Giants
Greek mythological character
Other associated place
Sicily (Italy)
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF:
52156130969958312016
Wikidata:
Q193567
Library of congress:
no2019087225
OCoLC:
oca12165646
DLC:
no2019087225
Sources of Information
- Góngora y Argote, Luis de. The fable of Polyphemus and Galatea, 1988.
- Góngora y Argote, Luis de. Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea, 1923.
- Cras, Jean. Polyphème, 2003.
- Polyphemus (Polyphemus was the giant son of the god Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology. He was one of the Cyclopes, having a single eye) Cyclopes (The Cyclopes (singular: Cyclops) were gigantic, one-eyed beings with enormous strength. Originally, there were three of them: Arges, Steropes, and Brontes; capable blacksmiths, these were the sons of Uranus and Gaea and the brothers of the Hecatoncheires and the Titans; at a later time, poets spoke of a different type of Cyclopes, a race of dim-witted and violent one-eyed shepherds dwelling in the caves of the island of Sicily. The most famous among them was Polyphemus, the Cyclops who fell in love with Galatea and was eventually blinded by Odysseus ( (Greek mythology website, June 12, 2019:) )
- Polyphemus (Polyphemus, in Greek mythology, the most famous of the Cyclopes (one-eyed giants), son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and the nymph Thoösa. According to Ovid in Metamorphoses, Polyphemus loved Galatea, a Sicilian Nereid, and killed her lover Acis. When the Greek hero Odysseus was cast ashore on the coast of Sicily, he fell into the hands of Polyphemus, who shut him up with 12 of his companions in his cave and blocked the entrance with an enormous rock. Odysseus at length succeeded in making Polyphemus drunk, blinded him by plunging a burning stake into his eye while he lay asleep) Cyclops (Cyclops, (Greek: "Round Eye") in Greek legend and literature, any of several one-eyed giants to whom were ascribed a variety of histories and deeds. In Homer the Cyclopes were cannibals, living a rude pastoral life in a distant land (traditionally Sicily), and the Odyssey contains a well-known episode in which Odysseus escapes death by blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus ( (Encyclopædia Britannica online, June 12, 2019:) )
- Wikipedia, June 12, 2019:Polyphemus (Polyphemus (Greek: Πολύφημος = Polyphēmos) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey; habitat: Sicily, Italy; German: Polyphem; Spanish: Polifemo; French: Polyphème; Indonesian: Polifemos; Italian: Polifemo; Russian: Полифем = Polifem; Chinese: 波吕斐摩斯 = Bolufeimosi) Cyclops (A cyclops (plural cyclopes), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the center of his forehead)
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Dutch:
Odysseus redt zijn metgezellen van Polyphemus door hen,
Ulysses and his men slip away concealed under rams
Jacob Jordaens, Public domain