Word: polyphemus
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...That talkative, bald-headed seaman," wily Ulysses, is supposed to have done battle in Sicily with Polyphemus, member of the gigantic tribe of Cyclopes, who had but one eye, in the centre of their foreheads, and were believed by the Greeks to forge iron for Vulcan. The historical originals of this tribe were probably Pelasgians, who worked in underground quarries, wearing lanterns or flares on their beads...
Davico's "Polyphemus" possesses the virtue (unusual in symphonic poems) of brevity. Its programmatic element is clear and vivid without being unnecessarily involved an interesting work...
...Polypheme" is a poem taken from Theocritus's idyl on the jealousy of Polyphemus towards Galathea, and has proved to be one of the great successes of the Comedie Francaise" during the past few years...
Yale beats us at the game of corralling giants. Is there no game for ordinary mortals to play? Must they forever sit and warm the bleachers? Must they forever simply sing and cheer? Did God really put all the brain, nerve, heart, skill, adroitness, quickness worth cultivating into Polyphemus? Has not this idolatry of burly Sullivans, and Wooly Goliaths game far enough? Why does this good old game of football languish in America? Why does good old Rugby languish? Why do not the men who pine upon the bleachers take this up and make it popular? It is a better...
...patron-god four plays; the last of these was the satyr play, which was really neither tragedy nor comedy, but a tragedy of the old type with all the rudeness and boisterousness of earlier times. Such a play is the Cyclops, the subject being the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus...