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The story of the Cyclops can be found in the Odyssey, book 9 (in the Cyclopeia). Use of the name "Nobody" can be found in five different lines of Book 9. First of all in line 366: "Cyclops, you asked my noble name, and I will tell it; but do you give the stranger's gift, just as you promised. My name is Nobody.
Amphora painting of Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus (Eleusis museum) During the seventh century, the potters gave preference to scenes from both epics, The Odyssey and the Iliad, almost half being that of the blinding of the Cyclops and the ruse by which Odysseus and his men escape. [9]
According to Book 9 of the Odyssey, following their departure from Troy, after winning the Trojan War, in which the Cicones had been allies of the Trojans, Odysseus and his companions are blown off course to Ismaros. [2]
In Book 9 of the Odyssey, Odysseus describes to his hosts the Phaeacians his encounter with the Cyclops Polyphemus. [63] Having just left the land of the Lotus-eaters , Odysseus says "Thence we sailed on, grieved at heart, and we came to the land of the Cyclopes". [ 64 ]
A mosaic depicting Odysseus, from the villa of La Olmeda, Pedrosa de la Vega, Spain, late 4th–5th centuries AD. The Odyssey begins after the end of the ten-year Trojan War (the subject of the Iliad), from which Odysseus (also known by the Latin variant Ulysses), king of Ithaca, has still not returned because he angered Poseidon, the god of the sea.
Odysseus is probably best known as the eponymous hero of the Odyssey. This epic describes his travails, which lasted for 10 years, as he tries to return home after the Trojan War and reassert his place as rightful king of Ithaca. Odysseus and Polyphemus (1896) by Arnold Böcklin: Odysseus and his crew escape the Cyclops Polyphemus.
In the Idyll, Theocritus gives advice to a friend suffering from Love. He recommends seeking the "medicine" for his "wound" in song, as the Cyclops Polyphemus was once able to do. Although he once was "languishing" while he sang of his love, eventually the Cyclops was able to find the cure through a different kind of song.
Cyclops: south-east Sicily, near Etna and Lentini (1.2.9); also suggests that Homer "borrowed his idea of the one-eyed Cyclopes from the history of Scythia, for it is reported that the Arimaspians are a one-eyed people" (1.2.10) Aeolus: Lipari, among the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily; Laestrygonians: south-east Sicily (1.2.9)