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sea cliff containing Polyphemus’s cave

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Canonical name
sea cliff containing Polyphemus’s cave
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Parent location
land of the Cyclopes
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Claims

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·Remembered

The sea cliff holds Polyphemus’s great laurel-overhung cave.

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“on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels”

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·Remembered
“on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave”

Passage preview

Book 9 · Passage 11

‘I went on board, bidding my men to do so also and loose the hawsers; so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars. When we got to the land, which was not far, there, on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels. It was a station for a great many sheep and goats, and outside there was a large yard, with a high wall round it made of stones built into the ground and of trees both pine and oak. This was the abode of a huge monster who was then away from home shepherding his flocks. He would have nothing to do with other people, but led the life of an outlaw. He was a horrid creature, not like a human being at all, but resembling rather some crag that stands out boldly against the sky on the top of a high mountain.