When Polyphemus realizes Odysseus and his men have escaped, he chases them and throws rocks at their ship sailing away.
Odysseus was the legendary king of Ithaca, and a Greek hero in the great Trojan War, which the Greeks won after 10 long years. On his way home, Odysseus had many adventures, including his stop at the land of the Cyclops, one-eyed giants, where the Cyclops named Polyphemus kept Odysseus and his men imprisoned in his cave. Pictured in this early 1900s illustration is Polyphemus about to eat two of Odysseus' men. Odysseus and his men tricked Polyphemus into drinking lots of wine, poke out his eye when he was asleep, and then escaped from the cave by hanging on to the underbelly of the sheep he kept in his cave and took out each day to graze in the pasture. When Polyphemus realizes they have escaped, he chases them and throws rocks at their ship sailing away. This last scene is picture in this 1911 illustration.
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