Polyphemus<3 The most famous cyclopes. Polyphemus • Polyphemus is the most famous of the cyclopes. • Polyphemus does not have any powers. • Polyphemus dad is Poseidon, Poseidon is the god of the sea. • Polyphemus mom is Nymph thoosa. Why is polyphemus important? • Polyphemus is important to odyssey simply because polyphemus held them to capture in a cave. • He symbolizes the one eye on his forehead Why is polyphemus so unique? • Polyphemus was a man eating cyklops, with a orb shaped eye in the middle of his forehead. • Polyphemus is unique because he is a wild race of lawless creatures who possess neither social manners nor fear of the gods. This is a picture of the famous polyphemus! Myth • Polyphemus is the son of the Poseidon and thoosa, polyphemus was the greatest among the cyclopes. When Odysseus arrived polyphemus locked him and his companions in a cave and devoured 6 of them. Odysseus blinded the single eye and made good with his escape. Poseidon called upon storms and hampered Odysseus voyage.
