‘Cyclops—
if any man on the face of the earth should ask you
who blinded you, shamed you so—say Odysseus,
raider of cities, he gouged out your eye,
Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca!’ – The Odyssey – Homer
Arnold Bocklin‘s painting of Polyphemus standing on rocks onshore and swinging one of them back as the men row desperately over a surging wave.
Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter. Born 16 October 1827 Basel, Switzerland. Via wikipedia
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