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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 38 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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POLYPHEMUS , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the most famous of the See also:

CYCLOPES (KUKXW9rer, the round-eyed, plural of Cyclops)

Cyclopes, son of See also:

POSEIDON

Poseidon and the nymph Thoosa. He dwelt in a See also:

cave in the See also:

south-See also:

west corner of See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, and was the owner of large flocks and herds. He was of gigantic stature, with one See also:

eye in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of his forehead, a consumer of human flesh, without respect for the See also:

LAWS

laws of See also:

GOD

God or See also:

man. See also:

ODYSSEUS (in Latin Ulixes, incorrectly written Ulysses)

Odysseus, having been See also:

CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast ashore on the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of Sicily, See also:

fell into the hands of Polyphemus, who shut him up with twelve of his companions in his cave, and blocked the entrance with an enormous See also:

rock. Odysseus at length succeeded in making the See also:

GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant drunk, blinded' him by plunging a burning stake into his eye while he See also:

LAY

lay asleep, and with six of his See also:

friends (the others having been devoured by Polyphemus) made his See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape by clinging to the bellies of the See also:

sheep let out to pasture. See also:

EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides in the Cyclops essentially follows the Homeric See also:

account. A later See also:

story associates Polyphemus with Galatea (see See also:

ACIS

Acis). See also:

HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer, Odyssey, ix.; See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, Metam. xiii. 749; See also:

THEOCRITUS

Theocritus xi. See W. See also:

Grimm, See also:

Die See also:

SAGE, RUSSELL (1816-1906)

Sage von Polyphem. (1857); G.

R. See also:

Holland, in Leipziger Studien (1884), vii. 139-312.

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