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Sentence Examples
Ulysses took his revenge while Polyphemus was asleep, driving a sharpened and heated log into the single eye of their cannibal captor.
Polyphemus is one of the Cyclopes, and one of the only creatures born before the Titans, who was not killed by the Olympians.
The third voyage involves confrontations with a race of wicked dwarfs and a Cyclops-like giant who reminds us of Homer's Polyphemus.
Their harmonious relationship is disrupted by the appearance of the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus, who slays his rival in a rage.
According to legend, the origin is due to rocks thrown by Polyphemus against Ulysses' ship-None.
Cyclops by Euripides, the only fully extant satyr play, retells the episode involving Polyphemus with a humorous twist.
When the Greek hero Odysseus was cast ashore on the coast of Sicily, he fell into the hands of Polyphemus, who shut him up with 12 of his companions in his cave and blocked the entrance with an enormous rock.
It will be a long, hard and difficult journey: I shall meet Polyphemus, I shall meet Circe, the sorceress, and perhaps in the end I shall see Penelope looking like our President Prodi.
Purves was hilariously macho as Polyphemus, rolling up his sleeves, unbuttoning his shirt and leering across the stage at Galatea while transforming the lumbering O ruddier than the cherry into a nimble showstopper.
The Riviera of the Cyclops, which is set the Cyclops Islands Marine Protected Area is famous for the legend has it that the three stacks are the stones thrown by Polyphemus against Ulysses' ship flying away.
In the Odyssey, Poseidon is notable for his hatred of Odysseus who blinded the god's son, the cyclops Polyphemus.
Then, they entered the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus on the underbellies of sheep, escaping by blinding him with a wooden stake.
Odysseus' narrative, Book 9, featuring his encounter with the cyclops Polyphemus, is traditionally called the Cyclopeia.
While they were escaping, however, Odysseus foolishly told Polyphemus his identity, and Polyphemus told his father, Poseidon, that Odysseus had blinded him.
Moths such as the luna and polyphemus spend the winter months as pupae in leaf-wrapped cocoons.
Structure and stability of arthropodan hemocyanin Limulus polyphemus.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is certainly the sort of wine wherewith to tempt a Polyphemus, and not unapt to turn a giant's head.
The Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea has a fine amplitude of rough buffoonery.
Acis, crushed to death by Polyphemus, was changed into a stream, but from his blood there sprang the flowering rush.
There fluttered toward her another Polyphemus moth, a handsome fellow, marked exactly as she was, only with darker coloring.
Poseidon will not permit it, because thou hast blinded his son, Polyphemus.
Polyphemus is a Cyclops but he has characteristics of his own.
This was Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon, the owner of the cave.
Many men, both writers and readers, are its victims, like Polyphemus.
In like manner, Polyphemus, in his crisis, remembered a similar oracle.
The Polyphemus moth, for example, has been experimented with a great deal.
The most terrible, Polyphemus, devours several of Odysseus' companions.
At this, old Polyphemus went into a Homeric peal of laughter.
Their hearts sank as they heard me, for they remembered how they had been treated by the Laestrygonian Antiphates, and by the savage ogre Polyphemus.
What ails you, Polyphemus,' said they, 'that you make such a noise, breaking the stillness of the night, and preventing us from being able to sleep?
Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus, Exadius, godlike Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals.
