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phil should know for sure hopefully he'll come here soon
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if this was like three years ago, I could have quoted the Odessey and Iliad for you line by line....I was that good lol

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Poseidon was angry at Odysseus for blinding Polyphemus, but that seems stupid because he was about to eat Odysseus, what did he expect him to do?
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thas right, he was blinded, not killed

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but what was it that got him blown off course in the 1st place so that he ended up on polyphemus' island
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I think that might have been because he refused to sacrifice a girl to him (and the girls name is slipping my mind...nuts)....I think thats in the Iliad though.....

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The other Cyclopses were Titans, but Polyphemus was born later.

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i also don't think that poseidon knew it was odysseus who blinded the cyclops since polyphemus thought odyseus' name was "noman"
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But I can answer that: the last thing Odysseus said to Polyphemus as he was sailing away was "Noman didn't blind you, it was me, Odysseus"... and without that bit of bravado, the Odyssey would have been loads shorter as Poseidon wouldn't have known who to get at.

I also seem to remember that Odysseus got Polyphemus drunk first - very sensible tactic, IMO, when fighting demigods

wrt your initial question, Polyphemus is Poseidon's son - described as one of the "younger cyclops", i.e. sort of a second-generation one-eyed git (if you've not come across the "that's the one I'd get" joke :-)) - can't find any reference as to who his mother actually was, presumably a she-cyclops of some kind...

Another interesting aside: There was a seer, named Telemus, who foretold that he would one day lose his eye to a hero. Polyphemus would kill and devour any man who set foot on the island.
In other words, Polyphemus only started killing and eating men after Telemus told him he'd lose his eye to a hero... but Odysseus only blinded him to save him and his men from being eaten.  There's a lot of that: if Oedipus' father hadn't been told that his son would kill him and marry the queen, he wouldn't have sent Oedipus off into the woods so that story wouldn't have happened either.  Prophesy is a double-edged sword...

Phil
PS So, Ethan, what's the parody going to be?