Odysseus blinded and killed him, which is the reason that Poseidon wanted to make sure he would not return home safely. Polyphemus happened to be Poseidon's favorite son.
The cyclops was already named Polyphemus. Odysseus did not name the cyclops.
The cyclops Polyphemus is not, no. But someone else named Polyphemus is. Godlike Polyphemus is mentioned by Nestor in his speech to Agamemnon and Achilles in Book 1 (Line 264). This is possibly the Polyphemus who is an Argonaut. It is probably not the cyclops.
Polyphemus, the cyclops in the Odyssey, is the son of Poseidon and a nereid named Thoosa.
The Cyclops who eats men is named Polyphemus. He is a character from Greek mythology, specifically appearing in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey.
The cyclops that Odysseus encountered was Polyphemus; in Greek Mythology there were many cyclops.
The habitat of a Cyclops can be really anything. A famous cyclops named Polyphemus lived in a cave with the Golden Fleece.
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PoseidonPoseidon was the father of the cyclops Polyphemus whom Odysseus blinded.Poseidon
Odysseus waited for the cyclops Polyphemus inside the cave with some of his crewmen.
In the Odyssey, the 72 men were killed by the Cyclops named Polyphemus. Odysseus and his crew became trapped in the Cyclops' cave, and to escape, they blinded Polyphemus. As a result, the enraged Cyclops killed some of Odysseus' men as they were leaving the island.
It was Polyphemus.
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