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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.
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]
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Articles relating to Polyphemus, his legends, and his depictions. He is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology , one of the Cyclopes described in Homer 's Odyssey . His name means "abounding in songs and legends", "many-voiced" or "very famous".
English: Giant Polyphemus, holding a drinking cup, is blinded by Odysseus and a companion (neck), lion confronts a boar (shoulder). Large Proto-Attic neck amphora, 142 cm, funerary, ca 650 BC. Large Proto-Attic neck amphora, 142 cm, funerary, ca 650 BC.
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