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), depicting the Blinding of the Cyclops Polyphemos by Odysseus. It was constructed from many fragments discovered around 1960 at Sperlonga a pleasure resort of the Emperor Tiberius (from 14-37 AD). Why did Odysseus and his companions not kill the sleeping Polyphemos? Odysseus explains: “I was at first inclined to seize my sword, draw it, and drive it into his vitals, but I reflected that if I did we should all certainly be lost, for we should never be able to shift the stone which the monster had put in front of the door”
by Langford Conference of the Department of Classics 1997 Florida State (Corporate Author), Nancy Thomson De Grummond (Editor), Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (Editor) University of California Press ( 2001) ISBN: 0520223276 Gösta Säflund, The Polyphemus and Scylla groups at Sperlonga (Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1972)
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