His diet includes whatever he can find to hand - so he grabs two of Odysseus's crew and devours them on the spot. Once the Cyclops is asleep the crew think of killing him; but Odysseus explains ...

Dive in to discover more about Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops who almost ate Odysseus! Polyphemus is a Cyclops from Greek mythology. In particular, he is a Sicilian Cyclops — the worst type of ...

In the Odyssey, the ancient Greek poet Homer recounts the hero Odysseus's near fatal encounter with the cyclops Polyphemus.

Take the event that draws down the curse on Odysseus and his crew — that is to say, the reason for the epic’s existence. Having blinded the horrible Cyclops and led his men to an ingenious ...

until Odysseus concocts an unlikely plan. 7. Odysseus and the Cyclops On their return from Troy Odysseus and his crew put ashore on the island of a Cyclops.

You could look back to the last major adaptation of Homer, Wolfgang Peterson’s 2004 hit “Troy,” and say that Brad Pitt had ...

Before I even set out from my chemotherapy and radiation treatment in Puyallup on Monday to the office in Sumner, I’d ...

Ancient Greek myths have continuously inspired both classical and modern writers, leading them to produce brilliant classic ...

1 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 Is King Odysseus, the Trojan Horse-building genius of Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey, merely a fictional figure in classic literature? Or was he a real, flesh-and-blood man ...

It took Odysseus 20 years to crisscross the wine-dark sea, but it has taken far longer for Makis Metaxas to convince the world of his most earnest beliefs: Not only did Homer’s trickster hero ...

the part that includes the cyclops and the Sirens and the six-headed sea monster and lots of meddling by the gods. Instead, it sticks with the final section in which Odysseus returns to his ...