The mythological Cyclops Polyphemus was blinded by which hero?
Polyphemus (Guido Reni) signed by Reni, with dating of 1638 related to the figure of Polyphemus. Other research links this work to a lost canvas depicting Ariadne also by Reni. The painting depicts the scene from the Odyssey where the blinded Cyclops, in anger starts to gather boulders to toss at the ships of Odysseus in the distance. He perches in a diagonal to the canvas with a gray horizon. A more active depiction of the subject had been frescoed earlier in the Gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, at which Reni had worked under Annibale Carracci. Polyphemus (Guido Reni) The Polyphemus is a
Cyclops written down and collected in the 1890s, as the Nart saga and the Uryzmaeg stories. In the cyclops stories of the Caucasus, the cyclops is almost always a shepherd, and he is also variously presented as a one-eyed, rock-throwing, cannibalistic giant, who says his name is "nobody", who lives in a cave, whose door is blocked by a large stone, who is a threat to the hero of the story, who is blinded by a hot stake, and whose flock of sheep is stolen by the hero and his men. These motifs are also found in the cyclops stories of