#polyphemus

[lepetitdragonvert]

Ulysses Fleeing The Cave of Polyphemus

1812

Artist : Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853)

#christoffer wilhelm eckersberg #danish painter #danish artist #1812 #odysseus #odyssée #polyphemus #polyphème #cave #caverne #ulysses

[ao3screenshotss]

#title: #close to the breathing wave #author: #poisedwalrus #ao3 #ao3 funny #percy jackon and the olympians #polyphemus #percy jackson #luke castellan

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Okay. So I've already talked about Krishna-Arjun and Athena-Odysseus parallels in very brief.

They both have a mentor God x mortal disciple/best friend relationship (KrishnArjun be a little more *cough* intimate *cough* perhaps) and both Krishna and Athena guide their mortal besties through the war and life in general. Beautiful.

BUT. There is this one similarity YET a difference between these two pairs that I've been dying to talk about, and that is Arjun dreading the Kurukshetra war and Odysseus thinking of whether to kill Polyphemus or not.

You know where I'm going with this.

In both the instances we can see Krishna and Athena scolding them for being a coward, for being indecisive and having second thoughts about such an grave moment of their lives as this. We can clearly see the frustration in both the Gods over the hesitance of their mortal besties.

But here's where the difference comes into play. While Krishna's reprimands on Arjun finally worked after the entire recitation of the Gita and then showing his Vishwaroop, and the archer boih finally proceeded with the war,...... Odysseus didn't listen to Athena, and didn't kill Polyphemus, despite her reprimands, which then, as we know, led to their breakup. THEN Odysseus's act of not killing the cyclops was brought up by Poseidon, about how his mercifulness will one day lead to his doom, and that sometimes, killing is way better than forgiving.

Just thought it was an interesting parallel yet a distinction between these two duos.

PS: I forgot to add this for disclaimer but I am aware that Athena-Odysseus parting ways is only in the Epic musical, and not in the actual epics.

#also note that i have in no way put any of my own opinions about these events here #i'm just going with the opinions of the respective gods #mythology talk #mythology #hindu mythology #hindu myths #the mahabharata #mahabharata #hindu gods #krishna #lord krishna #hindublr #desiblr #desi tumblr #krishna x arjun #desi tag #desiposting #the odyssey #homer's odyssey #odysseus #greek mythology #greek gods #greek goddesses #greek goddess #athena #athena goddess of wisdom #athena greek mythology #krishnablr #hinduism #polyphemus

[dryococelas01]

Sure, when John Wick kills a bunch of people to avenge the death of his pet he gets a bunch of fans.

But when I, Polyphemus...

#greek mythology #epic the musical #john wick #polyphemus did nothing wrong #polyphemus

[tumblingdownthefoxden]

Relistening to Survive from Epic: The Musical and began reading the comments. Someone said that Polyphemus and Odysseus are parallel characters in the conflict of their boss battle songs which I understand.

Survive: a group of men believe they can take down one life just like that (they were poorly mistaken)

King: groups of men believe they can take down one life just like that (they were poorly mistaken)

And it me realize that Survive has an ensemble singing Polyphemus's name! Both songs have an ensemble singing the character's name.

King has an ensemble chanting Odysseus two syllables at a time.

Survive has the same ensemble sing Polyphemus one syllable at a time.

AND I JUST LEARNED THAT MY PRONUNCIATION OF POLYPHEMUS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE MUSICAL!

I thought of it as Poly-fee-mus but the ensemble sounds it as Poh-lay-fay-moos, and that might be why I hadn't noticed this detail until now.

#epic the musical #jorge rivera herrans #polyphemus #polites #odysseus #ensemble #this musical is giving me zoomies

[jarondont]

You want me to introduce myself? The thing that almost killed Odysseus?

#has this been done before #the odyssey #odysseus #epic the musical #epic: the musical #epic #jorge rivera herrans #polyphemus #and this is why sometimes it's nice to be nobody #edit: HOLY GUACAMOLE- #this post got 2k notes overnight. what the frick #1k #2k #3k #4k #5k #6k #7k #8k #9k #10k+

[possessable]

ignore the way odysseus looks i didn't feel like figuring out a design for him to make this stupid drawing

#shitpost #the odyssey #polyphemus #odysseus #epic the musical

[lunameimei]

So that's basically what happened in "The Cyclops Saga" right ?

#I finally listened to everything that has already been officially released by “Epic: The Musical” #my art #Odyssey #Athena #meme redraw #meme #fuck you mean nuh uh #odysseus #athena #epic fanart #odysseus fanart #athena fanart #odysseus of ithaca #Odysseus #epic: the musical #Epic the musical #The Cyclops Saga #polyphemus #Greek mythology #epic the cyclops saga

[jedi-valjean]

Odysseus' Strategy Notebook

PLAN TO DEFEAT THE TROJANS

Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it

PLAN TO DEFEAT THE CYCLOPS

Build giant wooden horse spear and hide inside it stab the cyclops with it

PLAN TO ESCAPE THE CYCLOPS' CAVE

Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it

Build giant wooden SHEEP and hide inside it

Build a bunch of normal-sized sheep and hide in those

Skin real sheep and use them to make incredibly realistic sheep costumes

Ride the sheep out of the cave but upside-down so he doesn't find us

PLAN TO DEFEAT THE LASTER LAESYTR LESTRYG CANNIBAL GIANTS

Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it

Build giant wooden cannibal giant and hide inside it

Build giant wooden RUN

PLAN TO DEFEAT THE WITCH

Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it

Build giant wooden pig and hide inside it?

Build giant wooden d go with Hermes' plan

PLAN TO DEFEAT SCYLLA

Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it

Build wooden decoy sailors and hope she eats those DID NOT WORK

PLAN TO STOP MEN FROM EATING SACRED CATTLE

Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it

Build giant wooden cow and trick the men into eating it

Take a nap and come up with a better plan

PLAN TO ESCAPE CALYPSO'S ISLAND

Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it

Build wooden decoy statue of me and put it in her bed

Build giant wooden d

PLAN TO KEEP ODYSSEUS HERE FOREVER

Steal strategy notebook

Check for splinters just in case

PLAN TO SNEAK BACK INTO THE PALACE

Build giant wooden h

Disguise self as giant wooden beggar normal old beggar OKAY I GET IT NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A GIGANTIC WOODEN REPLICA I GET IT ALREADY sheesh Athena

GET THE SUITORS OFF MY BACK, PLAN B (THANKS A LOT MELANTHO)

Announce that I will marry whoever can string my husband's bow and shoot through wait this isn't my notebook

PLAN TO KILL THE SUITORS wait who scribbled in my notebook

#the odyssey #odyssey #homer's odyssey #odysseus #odypen #penelope #epic the musical #trojan war #trojan horse #polyphemus #cyclops #circe #laestrygonians #scylla #calypso #athena #hermes #melantho

[ninadove]

Sorry about your son. We meant no harm. Yeah we only hurt him to disarm him. Yeah, no, we took no pleasure in his pain. We only wanted to escape. So. Yeaah.

#mythology #greek mythology #the odyssey #epic #epic the musical #the ocean saga #ruthlessness #poseidon #polyphemus #odysseus

[anniflamma]

do you think poseidon lets his son ride on his back in houres form ? p.s your blog is cool

Of course he would!

#I guess Poseidon is a good dad in his odd way #asks #epic the musical #greek mythology #horse!poseidon #poseidon #polyphemus

[withered-tears]

Polyphemus: still pissed off about my sheep but i havnt had wine in ages so FINE I'll let you guys leave.

Odysseus: Im so glad we see eye to eye

Polyphemus: i am KILLING everyone. im killing you im killing your fleet you are all dead die die die

#epic the musical #polyphemus #the cyclops #odysseus #we all agree he choose to kill them for the eye pun right

[animit-y]

Odysseus saying “I am your darkest hour” to a cyclops he’d just Blinded is crazy, actually

#epic the musical #epic the cyclops saga #odysseus #the odyssey #musicals #music #jorge rivera herrans #polyphemus

[katkit-drops-alt]

Hello, I’m here to offer you bad Greek mythology/epic the musical memes in honor of the Circe saga trailer dropping (I couldn’t think of any funny memes for Circe tho😭)

#epic the musical #epic: the musical #epic: the cyclops saga #epic the cyclops saga #the cyclops saga #greek mythology #the odyssey #odysseus #telemachus #polyphemus #zeus #hera #apollo #artemis #artemis and apollo

[theriverpointace]

my personal thoughts on "polyphemus" is that polyphemus was gonna actually give a gift ot odysseus and then he said, "i'm so glad we see eye to eye."

and polyphemus thought the pun was atrocious and decided to kill him instead

#epic the musical #the cyclops saga #odysseus #polyphemus

[theodysseyofhomer]

it's not so much that a cyclops is monstrous because a one-eyed giant who eats people must be a monster; it's that anyone who does not follow your laws, your customs, your culture must be a monster.

polyphemus eats his guests not because he's a cannibal — cannibalism also being a taboo that applies to humans, and he's not human — but because he doesn't follow xenia. polyphemus says to odysseus "we don't respect zeus here," but odysseus approaches polyphemus as if polyphemus is the foreigner. he expects his customs (which serve him, a conquering hero) to take precedence, even though he is the one away from home. he's been away from home for over ten years.

because to odysseus, there's not much difference between the trojans (the city he's sacked) or the cicones (a people he raided on the way home) and polyphemus, right? except that polyphemus is able to turn the tables. he is a monster, not in the sense that he is not a human being — the trojans have not been treated as human beings — but because he can insist that his law be respected in his own home.

and it's not that odysseus can't adapt. look at how differently he approaches nausicaa, or even circe. but his perspective is what we wayfind by, and all the while odysseus, at troy and during the wanderings, is himself foreign.

and then he comes to phaeacia and weeps over songs of war. and then he comes home and doesn't recognize it. and then divine intervention both hides him from and reveals him to his son and wife. and then he has to conquer his own homeland. and then the poem ends, abrupt and final journey spoken of but unresolved. and each of these things makes his perspective strange to himself, and by extension to us. it is exactly at the moment odysseus comes home that he believes himself to be lost, foreign, for good.

#yeah yeah another post about ethnocentrism and xenophobia in the odyssey. and how it rebounds on odysseus. we've heard it before #anna.txt #odysseus #polyphemus #the odyssey