Ulysses and Polyphemus

Ulysses reaches the island of the Cyclops, gigantic divinities with one eye.

He decides to go on a patrol of this land, wild and full of goats and sheep, with twelve companions.

Ulysses wants to get food and find out which people live there.

As if by premonition, he carries a wine bottle.

While scouring the island, they find themselves in front of the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus.

They enter and eat cheeses and milk which are found in abundance in the cave.

When Polyphemus returns to the cave he closes the entrance with a huge rock that traps men.

The cyclops notices the presence of foreigners and ferociously devours two.

Ulysses realizes that Polyphemus would kill them all, so he devises a plan to escape.

The following day the cyclops goes out to take the sheep to pasture and Ulysses prepares a pointed pole thinking to blind him, once he returns from pasture, after having made him drunk with the wine he had brought with him.

The plan succeeds and the only eye of the cyclops is blinded.

Clinging to the abdomen of the Ulysses sheep and his companions they manage to escape the following morning.

Once reached the ships, Ulysses reveals his name to Polyphemus.

This, for the serious outrage suffered, asks his father Poseidon to punish Ulysses by preventing him from returning home.