... > Classical Mythology and Ancient History > the Greek heroic legends (I) > adventures of the Greeks after the fall of Troy: the wanderings of Ulysses (Homer, Odyssey) > wanderings of Ulysses: from the Cicones to Scylla > Ulysses and his companions in the land of the Cyclopes (Homer, Odyssey IX) > Polyphemus hurls a rock at Ulysses' departing ships