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Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the Odyssey. The satyr play of Euripides is dependent on this episode apart from one detail; Polyphemus is made a pederast in the play. Later Classical writers presented him in their poems as heterosexual and linked his name with the nymph Galatea.
"The Lotus Eater" is a short story by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before .
The scenery and experience influenced a few of his poems, including Oenone, The Lotos-Eaters and Mariana in the South. [1] These three poems, and some others, were later revised for Tennyson's 1842 collection. [2] In this revision Tennyson takes the opportunity to rewrite a section of The Lotos-Eaters by inserting a new stanza before the final ...
The fourth panel of the so-called “Odyssey Landscapes” wall painting from the Vatican Museums in Rome, 60–40 B.C.E.. In Greek mythology, the Laestrygonians / ˌ l ɛ s t r ɪ ˈ ɡ oʊ n i ə n z / or Laestrygones / l ɛ ˈ s t r ɪ ɡ ə ˌ n iː z / [1] (Greek: Λαιστρυγόνες) were a tribe of man-eating giants.
They were shown as being mean, growling beasts, and as insatiable man-eaters that could smell the scent of human flesh. Some of the more ferocious ones were shown with flaming red eyes and hair, drinking blood with their cupped hands or from human skulls (similar to representations of vampires in later Western mythology).
[11] A contemporary description of the method was provided by Blake's friend, J.T. Smith; "writing his poetry, and drawing his marginal subjects of embellishments in outline upon the copper-plate with an impervious liquid, and then eating the plain parts or lights away with aquafortis considerably below them so that the outlines were left as ...
Mangeuses d'Hommes (English language release title Man Eaters) [1] is a cult 1988 French-language sex comedy/horror film, shot in Sierra Leone (mainly in the jungle near Tokey Beach and Black Johnson Cove) [2] and based on a farce of the same name, first performed on stage in Paris, running for over five years and written by French author/director Daniel Colas.
The Scots poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is an extended montage of distinct poems, or sections in various poetic forms, that are connected or juxtaposed to create one emotionally continuous whole in a way which both develops and consciously parodies compositional techniques used by poets such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.