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Writing more than three centuries after the Odyssey is thought to have been composed, Philoxenus of Cythera took up the myth of Polyphemus in his poem Cyclops or Galatea. The poem was written to be performed as a dithyramb, of which only fragments have survived, and was perhaps the first to provide a female love interest for the Cyclops.
Cyclops has a cosmopolitan distribution in fresh water, but is less frequent in brackish water. It lives along the plant-covered banks of stagnant and slow-flowing bodies of water, where it feeds on small fragments of plant material, animals (such as nematodes), or carrion. It swims with characteristic jerky movements.
The Cyclops, spurned by Galatea in favor of Acis, sings his charming and tender song, modeled on both Idyll XI and Eclogue II but drawn out to absurd length, and at the end suddenly announces that he is going to tear his rival Acis apart limb from limb. He proceeds to tear out a chunk of a mountain and hurls it at Acis, who is crushed (literally).
A first century AD head of a Cyclops from the Roman Colosseum. In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (/ s aɪ ˈ k l oʊ p iː z / sy-KLOH-peez; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; [1] singular Cyclops / ˈ s aɪ k l ɒ p s / SY-klops; Κύκλωψ, Kýklōps) are giant one-eyed creatures. [2]
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Of unknown position in the play is a fragment in which Clymene expresses hatred over the handy horned bow, and youths' pastime exercises, as they remind her of her slain son. [14] At another points she cries that her "best beloved, but now he lies [a]nd putrefies in some dark vale". [15]
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The discovery of Ichneutae was especially significant since Ichneutae is a satyr play, making it only one of two extant satyr plays, with the other one being Euripides's Cyclops. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Extensive remains of the Hypsipyle of Euripides and a life of Euripides by Satyrus the Peripatetic were also found at Oxyrhynchus.