Odysseus & Polyphemus: Visual Representation

In this post, I have just decided to include a few famous pictures and figures that best represent this story of Odysseus & Polyphemus. I hope you enjoy them! 😊

An illustration of the same incident where Odysseus is seen to blind Polyphemus by himself with his men watching from behind.
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Odysseus and his men driving a stake into the eye of the Cyclops Polyphemus. The giant sits on a rock holding the dismembered legs of a man whilst being offered a cup of wine. The legs are all that is left of his last victim. Two main themes are portrayed in this Laconian Black Figure, 550 B.C. which are teamwork and slyness. The presence of the snake is to reinforce the fact that the incident is taking place in the cave whereas the fish below recalls Odysseus' voyage.
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Another version of how Polyphemus looks like. Must I say, he looks like the evil twin brother of Mike Wazowski from Disney's Monster Inc. HAHAHA! Here is the link of Mike Wazowski if you don't know who he is. 😅
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Another picture of Odysseus blinding Polyphemus. Judging from how shocked our drunk friend was, he must have thought that Nobody was a flying hero of some sort, ay.
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This is a real live reconstruction of the incident found in the villa of Tiberius of Sperlonga, 1st century AD.
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This must have been the way Odysseus and his men escape from Polyphemus' cave.
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This is all for this post! 🙆 And I hope that all of you enjoyed looking at these pictures as much as I did.

Yours truly,
Gwen

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