Polyphemos
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Polyphemos (or Polyphemus) was a man-eating Cyclops giant with a single orb-shaped eye set in the middle of his forehead. His father is Poseidon. Polyphemos is said not only to have loved Galatea but to have fathered a son Galatos on her, as Bakkhylides testified.
In Homer's Odyssey Odysseus is trapped in cave with a drunken Polyphemos and tells the cyclops that his name os Nobody. When asleep, Odysseus and his men blind him. In his rage and pain he rolls the stone guarding his cave away from the entrance, allowing them to escape. Meanwhile screams for help saying he has been blinded the other giants repond saying who and he repies "Nobody has binded me" and the giants fail to come to his aid. As they sail away Polyphemos prays to Poseidon to avenge Odysseus and it os possible that this set off a trail of events that delays his return home for ten years
