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Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters. In Greek mythology, lotophages or the lotus-eaters (Ancient Greek: λωτοφάγοι, romanized: lōtophágoi) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree off of coastal Libya (Island of Djerba), [1] [2] a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain.
The lotus tree (Ancient Greek: λωτός, lōtós) is a plant that is referred to in stories from Greek and Roman mythology. The lotus tree is mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness, and which was said to be the only food of an island people called the Lotophagi or lotus-eaters. When they ate of the ...
The lotus-eaters were a race of people in Greek mythology. Lotus-eaters or Lotus eater may also refer to: Film and television. The Lotus Eater, a 1921 silent film;
"Lotus Eater" was a reference to Lotus-eaters of Greek mythology. The portrait depicts Thomas nude from the waist up, covering her left breast with her left hand while holding a rose with her right above her upraised face.
In Tennyson's The Lotos-Eaters, the moly is paired with the amaranth ("propt on beds of amaranth and moly"). [15] Linnaeus identified the mythical plant with golden garlic (Allium moly), although the perianth of this species is yellow, not white. Thom Gunn made his poem Moly the title poem of his 1971 collection. [16]
The story does not seem to feature in Ancient Greek vase-painting, and only occasionally in later art.Priapus and Lotis appear in the right foreground of The Feast of the Gods by Giovanni Bellini (c. 1514), [7] in an engraving by Giovanni Battista Palumba (c. 1510), and a drawing by Parmigianino of the 1530s.
Polyphemus (/ ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ f iː m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πολύφημος, romanized: Polyphēmos, Epic Greek: [polypʰɛːmos]; Latin: Polyphēmus [pɔlʏˈpʰeːmʊs]) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey.
In Greek mythology, the name Telepylos is mentioned in the Odyssey (k 82, ps 318) the city or country of the Laistrygons ("laistrygonii"). The name, from tele- = far and the door, perhaps according to some authors has the meaning of "eurypylos, megalopylos", or "macropylos" (Eustathius: "at a distance from each other, but next to the doors or at the length " ).