Ulysses Blinding Polyphemus

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The statue depicts an episode from Book 9 of Homer’s “Odyssey”, in which Odysseus dulls Polyphemus's senses by giving him wine and then blinds him with a pole.

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Reconstruction of the Polyphemus group in Sperlonga sculptures originally created in the 1st century BC. The sculpture depicts Odysseus (Ulysses) and his men attempting to blind the Cyclops, Polyphemus, with a pole made red-hot.

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    Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus (1 B.C.)
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    National Archaeological Museum "Grotta di Tiberio"
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    Via Flacca Km 16,600, 04029 Sperlonga, Italy