[Polyphemus Eating the Companions of Ulysses] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Polyphemus Eating the Companions of Ulysses]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Italy; Sicily; Aetna
Description: This engraving illustrates the cyclops, Polyphemus, eating the companions and comrades of Ulysses after he had sailed away from the rocks of Aetna. This story is being told by Achaemenides, who had been accidentally left behind on the rocks after Ulysses had sailed away. Polyphemus was in a rage, as Ulysses had sailed away before he could kill him. Polyphemus is depicted with limbs in his hands as he devours them, and dead bodies surrounding him.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11870
Language: spa
Source Name: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
Parent Collection: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)
Image: mta_11870_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Achaemenides; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Cyclops; Ulysses