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Polyphemus (Greek: Πολύφημος, transliterated as Polyphemos in Robert Fitzgerald's translation), a character in Greek mythology, is a Cyclops, the one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa. Polyphemus plays a pivotal role in Homer's...


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The Biological Bulletin
Circatidal and circadian rhythms of locomotion in Limulus polyphemus.
08/01/2004: 2,490 words, approx. 8 pages
The nocturnal increases in the sensitivity of the lateral eye of Limulus polyphemus, the species of horseshoe crab found along the Atlantic coast, have been firmly established as being controlled by an endogenous circadian clock (1, 2, 3) located in the brain (4). Virtually...
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Apollo
Giant questions: dining with Polyphemus at Sperlonga and Baiae.
07/01/2003: 7,060 words, approx. 24 pages
And where are we now ...? New Archaeology, like nouvelle cuisine, is seductive in appearance but nutritionally unsatisfying, and we may do well to be, in the Beazley manner, fastidious in our selection of lost causes, and refuse to be dominated by [it] ......


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Galatea and Polyphemus: Beauty and the Beast
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Ovid's poetry collection of Metamorphoses is the story of Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus. It answers why the Cyclops is a cowardly, resentful beast, and not a hero.


 

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