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The painting depicts an incident in the Odyssey, the epic poem by Homer which recounts the Greek hero Odysseus' 10 year long return journey home from the Siege of Troy. A blind giant Cyclops, Polyphemus, is preparing to hurl a large rock at the escaping boat of Odysseus and his crew. Odysseus in return is taunting him from the stern of the vessel.
On the neck of the vase, the figures depict Odysseus and his men blinding the cyclops Polyphemus. [2] The register just below the neck shows a lion chasing a boar. Although it is hard to see because the amphora was found in pieces and then reconstructed, the central register shows Athena and Perseus escaping after Perseus beheads Medusa. [3]
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner.It depicts a scene from Homer's Odyssey, showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus, one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded, who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side. [1]
Painting of Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus (from Eleusis Amphora by Polyphemos Painter, Eleusis museum) During the seventh century, the potters gave preference to scenes from both epics, The Odyssey and the Iliad, almost half being that of the blinding of the Cyclops and the ruse by which Odysseus and his men escape. [9]
Odysseus and Polyphemus (Böcklin) Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous; Odysseus on the Island of the Phaecians; The Odyssey (painting) S. The Sirens and Ulysses;
English: A derivative work based on a public domain image of an Ancient Greek black-figure vase painting depicting the blinding of Polyphemus with a hot pointed stick. . Males are depicted nude as in original painting, other sailors have been removed and some proportions have been ch
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Odysseus takes a barrel of wine and the Cyclops drinks it, falling asleep. Odysseus and his men take a wooden stake, ignite it with the remaining wine, and blind him. While they escape, Polyphemus cries in pain, and the other Cyclopes ask him what is wrong. Polyphemus cries, "Nobody has blinded me!" and the other Cyclopes think he has gone mad.