Polyphemus in a sentence

After Polyphemus eats several of his men, Polyphemus and Odysseus have a discussion, and Odysseus told Polyphemus his name is "Nobody".

When Polyphemus shouts for help from his fellow giants, saying that "Nobody" has hurt him, they think Polyphemus is being afflicted by divine power and recommend prayer as the answer.

Above is crouched the figure of Polyphemus in weathered bronze, peering down at the white marble group of Acis and Galatea embracing below (see below).

Achaemenides is taken aboard Aeneas’ vessel and they cast off with Polyphemus in chase.

A fresco from 1st century AD depicting Polyphemus and Galatea in a naked embrace.

Again, Polyphemus merges with the cliff where he meditates in the same way that Galatea merges with her element within the grotto in the painting at Musée d'Orsay.

All the other sources of literature about the cyclopes describe the cyclops Polyphemus, who lived upon an island (often identified by ancient authors with Sicily) populated by the creatures.

Arnold Bocklin pictures the giant as standing on rocks onshore and swinging one of them back as the men row desperately over a surging wave (see below), while Polyphemus is standing at the top of a cliff in Jean-Léon Gérôme 's painting of 1902.

Arnold Bocklin 's painting of Polyphemus standing on rocks onshore and swinging one of them back as the men row desperately over a surging wave.

Corneille Van Clève (1681) represents a seated Polyphemus in his sculpture, except that in his version it is pipes that the giant holds in his lowered hand.

Elements of the story of Odysseus and Polyphemus are recognizable in the folklore of many other European groups.

Here two herdsmen engage in a musical competition, one of them playing the part of Polyphemus, who asserts that since he had adopted the ruse of ignoring Galatea, she has now become the one who pursues him.

In an earlier painting by Poussin from 1630 (now housed at the Dublin National Gallery ) the couple are among several embracing figures in the foreground, shielded from view of Polyphemus, who is playing his flute higher up the slope.

In Idyll XI Polyphemus becomes a young herdsman finding solace in song for his love of the sea-nymph.

In The Odyssey, Odysseus meets the monstrous cyclops Polyphemus during the course of his wanderings.

Odysseus had meanwhile hardened a wooden stake in the fire and now drives it into Polyphemus' eye.

Odysseus' narrative, Book 9, featuring his encounter with the cyclops Polyphemus, is traditionally called the Cyclopeia.

Other uses Polyphemus is mentioned in the "Entered Apprentice" chapter of Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma (1871).

Polyphemus cries, "Nobody has blinded me!" and the other Cyclopes think he has gone mad.

Polyphemus spies on the sleeping Galatea, Gustave Moreau (1880) Other paintings take up the Theocritan theme of the pair divided by the elements with which they are identified, land and water.