Artistic depictions of Polyphemus

Artistic depictions of Polyphemus

Polyphemus and Odysseus

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  Flemish Jacob Jordaens' depiction of Odysseus escaping from the cave of Polyphemus (1635).
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  Guido Reni's painting of 1639/40.
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  Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein's 1802 head and shoulders portrait of the giant.
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  Arnold Bocklin's painting of Polyphemus standing on rocks onshore and swinging one of them back as the men row desperately over a surging wave.

Polyphemus, Galatea, and Acis

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  A fresco from 1st century AD depicting Polyphemus and Galatea in a naked embrace.
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  A pastoral interpretation of the Acis and Galatea story is Nicholas Poussin's "Landscape with Polyphemus" (1649)
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  Poussin's 1630 painting of Acis and Galatea embracing in the foreground, shielded from view of Polyphemus, who is playing his flute higher up the slope.
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  Jean-Baptiste van Loo's contribution to the "The Triumph of Galatea" series.
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  Polyphemus spies on Galatea through the wall of a sea grotto or emerges from a cliff to adore her sleeping fig
  
  

Polyphemus is mentioned in the "Entered Apprentice" chapter of Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma (1871). Within Scottish Rite Freemasonry he is regarded as a symbol for a civilization that harms itself using ill directed blind force.[37]The Polyphemus moth is so named because of the large eyespots in the middle of the hind wings.[38] A number of ships and English steam locomotives have also been named after the giant.The Polyphemus episode was featured in the 1905 short film Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus by Georges Méliès. This combines with the Calypso episode and employs special effects. Other films that include it have been the 1911 Odissea and the 1955 Ulysses (see external links below).