Because Odysseus managed to escape Polyphemus, Poseidon kept interfering with his voyage, preventing him from returning home for so long. *Not every obstacle Odysseus encountered is shown on the ...

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey depicts Matt Damon's Odysseus stranded at sea, hinting at a pivotal scene from Homer's poem.

The trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey shows Telemachus looking for Odysseus, fitting with Homer's tale of father and son trying to reunite.

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...

Polyphemus was the son of the god Poseidon, and one of the race of cyclopes, giant one-eyed shepherds who inhabited an island later identified as Sicily. When Odysseus (Ulysses) and twelve of his men ...

Polyphemus devoured several of Odysseus' companions before the legendary hero managed to blind the giant and lead the survivors to freedom. Matt Damon on the set of ‘The Odyssey’.

The cyclops Polyphemus is a buffonish but sympathetic oaf, and the witch Circe (Kate Hamill) is silly and child-like despite paralleling Odysseus’s dark side.