Since Polyphemus has been blinded, he doesn't see the men, but feels the tops of his sheep to make sure the men aren't riding them. When the Cyclops lets the sheep out to graze, the men are carried out. In the morning, Odysseus ties his men and himself to the undersides of Polyphemus' sheep. Polyphemus' cries of help are answered by the others of his race however, they turn away from aiding him when they hear that "Nobody" is the cause of his woes. Once the giant falls asleep drunk, Odysseus and his men take the spit from the fire and drive it through Polyphemus' only eye. When Polyphemus asks for Odysseus' name, he tells him that it is 'Outis', Greek for 'no man' or 'nobody'.
HADES ZEUS LOCKED HEART SKIN
To make Polyphemus unwary, Odysseus gives him a skin of very strong, unwatered wine. He proceeds to eat several crew members, but Odysseus devises a cunning plan for escape. This cave is the home of Polyphemus, who soon returns and traps the trespassers in the cave. They enter into the cave and feast on food they find there. In Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey, a scouting party led by Odysseus lands on the Island of the Cyclopes and discovers a large cave. Another member of this group of Cyclopes was Telemus, a seer. Commonly, the term "Cyclops" refers to a particular son of Poseidon and Thoosa named Polyphemus who was a Cyclops. The Cyclopes were huge one-eyed monsters that resided on an island with the same name. It is said that these Cyclopes were later killed by Apollo after Zeus killed his son, Asclepius, with a Cyclopes-forged thunderbolt.
The noises proceeding from the heart of volcanoes were attributed to their operations. The Cyclopes were said to have built the "cyclopean" fortifications at Tiryns and Mycenae in the Peloponnese. According to a hymn of Callimachus, they were Hephaestus' helpers at the forge. These Cyclopes also created Poseidon's trident, Artemis' bow and arrow, and the helmet that Hades gave to Perseus on his quest to kill Medusa. The thunderbolts, which became Zeus' signature weapons, were forged by all three Cyclopes: Arges added brightness, Brontes added thunder, and Steropes added lightning. They fashioned thunderbolts for Zeus to use as weapons, and helped him overthrow Cronus and the other Titans. But Cronus then placed them back in Tartarus, where they remained, guarded by the she-dragon Campe, until freed by Zeus. Cronus, another son of Uranus and Gaia, later freed the Cyclopes, along with the Hecatonchires, after he had castrated and overthrown Uranus. Uranus, fearing their strength, locked them in Tartarus. Collectively they eventually became synonyms for brute strength and power, and their name was invoked in connection with massive masonry and especially well-crafted weapons. According to Hesiod, they were strong, stubborn, and "abrupt of emotion". They were giants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead and a foul disposition. Like their brothers, the Hecatonchires ("hundred-handed ones"), they were primordial sons of Sky and Earth.
In the Theogony, the Cyclopes- Brontes ( thunderer), Steropes () and Arges ( brightener)-were the sons of Uranus ("Sky") and Gaia ("Earth"). The Cyclops, a 1914 painting by Odilon Redon.
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