Polyphemus
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One-eyed Cyclops, son of Poseidon, who trapped Odysseus and his crew in his cave. Blinded with a heated olive-wood stake. The Odyssey's account is a first-person narration by Odysseus within the poem - fiction narrated as testimony, and a useful contrast with the historiographic entries here.
Named in Greek, Roman, Norse, Islamic, Celtic and Asian tradition. Recorded as tradition, not asserted as history.
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