Ulysses took his revenge while Polyphemus was asleep, driving a sharpened and heated log into the single eye of their cannibal captor. Let us recollect also that Ulysses, ...

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’. pic.twitter ...

For his part, Ulysses didn’t find his comeback so smooth. He had brief and not-so-brief encounters with the Cicones, the Cyclops Polyphemus, the sirens, the Laestrygonians and even the overly ...