Download ablemedia.com

About the Sculpture
• Made in the late
Hellenistic or Roman
period about 150 B.C.
• Height: 38.3 cm
• Made of marble
• Broken off at the neck
• From a collection when
Odysseus blinded the
Cyclops
Who is Polyphemus?
• Cyclops that trapped
Odysseus and his crew
• Ate flesh of any kind
• Son of Poseidon
• Blinded by Odysseus
• Mythical semi-human
monster in huge proportions,
had one eye in the center of
his forehead
Comparison
Polyphemus the Cyclops
Greek Titan
• Both are mythical
destructive
monsters
• Feared creatures
• Enormous in size
and strength
• Kill anything that
is a threat to them
•One is from
Roman and one
is from Greek
Mythology
•Titans attacked
for power but
Polyphemus
would attack in
self defense
Polyphemus’ Role in the Odyssey
• Captures Odysseus and his men
• Odysseus and his men sharpened a
pole to blind the Cyclops
• They got him drunk off wine and
blinded him
• The Cyclops was forced to move the
boulder and the men all escaped
• Polyphemus prayed to his father
Poseidon to send them a curse and
for the rest of their journey Poseidon
was their enemy