Polyphemus

Also known as: Polyphemus son of Eilatus · Family: Argonauts · Role: hero and Argonaut · First appears: Book I 1

Life events

Hylas disappears after going to the well, prompting Polyphemus and Heracles to search for him.(Book I 10 · 📍 Pegae)
- With: Hylas Heracles
- “Hylas has gone to the well and has not returned safe, but robbers have attacked and are carrying him off, or beasts are tearing him to pieces; I heard his cry.”
The Argonauts sail away, unknowingly abandoning Heracles and Polyphemus.(Book I 10)
- With: Heracles Jason Tiphys
- “But straightway the morning star rose above the topmost peaks and the breeze swept down; and quickly did Tiphys urge them to go aboard and avail themselves of the wind.”
Glaucus foretells the separate destinies of Heracles, Polyphemus, and Hylas.(Book I 10)
- With: Glaucus Heracles Hylas
- “At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell with the immortals, if so be that he bring to fulfilment a few more yet; wherefore let there be no vain regret for him. Likewise it is destined for Polyphemus to found a glorious city at the mouth of Cius among the Mysians and to fill up the measure of his fate in the vast land of the Chalybes. But a goddess-nymph through love has made Hylas her husband, on whose account those two wandered and were left behind.”

parent: Eilatus (Eilatus is identified as Polyphemus’s father.) “Alone of his comrades the hero Polyphemus, son of Eilatus, as he went forward on the path, heard the boy’s cry”
friends with Heracles (Polyphemus is identified as a comrade of Heracles.) “Alone of his comrades the hero Polyphemus, son of Eilatus, as he went forward on the path, heard the boy’s cry, for he expected the return of mighty Heracles.”
with Glaucus (interaction) “Likewise it is destined for Polyphemus to found a glorious city at the mouth of Cius among the Mysians and to fill up the measure of his fate in the vast land of the Chalybes.”

friends with Heracles (Polyphemus is identified as Heracles' comrade.) “He was urged on by the doom of the gods and his own courage, that he might learn for certain from Heracles where he had left Polyphemus, son of Eilatus; for he was minded to question him on every point concerning his comrade.”
parent: Eilatus “Polyphemus, son of Eilatus”
friends with Canthus “that he might learn for certain from Heracles where he had left Polyphemus, son of Eilatus; for he was minded to question him on every point concerning his comrade”

Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.