Polyphemus

First appears: Apollodorus, Epitome 7

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Polyphemus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Polyphemus)

Life events

• Odysseus blinded Polyphemus, provoking Poseidon’s enduring wrath.(Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 land of the Cyclopes)
  • With: Odysseus Poseidon
  • “But Ulysses found a club lying there, and with the help of four comrades he sharpened it, and, having heated it in the fire, he blinded him. And when Polyphemus cried to the Cyclopes round about for help, they came and asked who was hurting him, and when he said, “ Nobody,” they thought he meant that he was being hurt by nobody, and so they retired.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 7

• parent: Poseidon (parent->child) “Polyphemus, who was a son of Poseidon and the nymph Thoosa”
• parent: Thoosa (parent->child) “Polyphemus, who was a son of Poseidon and the nymph Thoosa”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.