In the work of even later authors, however, he is presented as both a successful lover and skilled musician. Often he was portrayed as unsuccessful in these, and as unaware of his disproportionate size and musical failings. Later Classical writers presented him in their poems as heterosexual and linked his name with the nymph Galatea.
The satyr play of Euripides is dependent on this episode apart from one detail for comic effect, Polyphemus is made a pederast in the play.
Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the Odyssey. His name means "abounding in songs and legends". Polyphēmos, Epic Greek: Latin: Polyphēmus ) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey. The blinded Polyphemus seeks vengeance on Odysseus: Guido Reni's painting in the Capitoline Museums.
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