His diet includes whatever he can find to hand - so he grabs two of Odysseus's crew and devours them on the spot. Once the Cyclops is asleep the crew think of killing him; but Odysseus explains ...

The cyclops Polyphemus is one of the most notable characters in The Odyssey. Odysseus and his men face this mighty creature ...

After Odysseus's men eat fruit that makes them forget their ultimate goal, the hero has to force them to leave, but this ends up putting them in the path of Polyphemeus, the cyclops, son of ...

Homer’s vast poem – all 24 books of it – is Western literature’s original hero’s journey. And only one director is brave enough to tackle it ...

More than his leadership and strength, Odysseus’ craftiness makes him a hero. He outsmarts his opponents time and again, whether by fooling an enormous cyclops by calling himself “Nobody ...

the menacing Cyclops and sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis. After travels and adventures coming home from the Trojan War, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) finds drama when he returns home to Ithaca in ...

in which Percy goes on a quest through the titular location to rescue Grover — who has gone on his own mission to search the sea for the god Pan — from the Cyclops that trapped Odysseus back ...

Odysseus loses his entire crew: they are shipwrecked by storms, thanks to the anger of the sea god Poseidon; eaten by the Cyclops Polyphemus, until Odysseus tricks and blinds him; they’re turned ...