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You Won’t Believe Who Polyphemus Really Was—Ancient Myths Revisited! For centuries, Polyphemus has been immortalized as a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, a brute king of the Cyclopes in Homer’s Odyssey. Known for trapping Odysseus and his crew, Polyphemus embodies the archetype of the monstrous outsider—a creature feared and reviled in ancient tales. But what if the truth behind Polyphemus runs far deeper than myth? ### The Cyclops: More Than Just a Monster In classical Greek literature, Polyphemus is unmistakably a Cyclops—a single-eyed giant described in Homer’s Odyssey (Book IX) as fierce, irrational, and primal. Yet, recent mythological excavations suggest the Cyclopes may have once symbolized more than chaos. Some scholars propose they represented marginalized outsiders in early Greek society—people excluded, misunderstood, or feared for their physical or cultural “otherness.” Was Polyphemus a product of tribal imagination meant to embody fear of the unknown?