Rider Painter. Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus, Laconian black-figure cup, 565–560 BC. Cabinet des médailles de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Luynes Collection. Donation 1852. Accession number: Inv. 190. (Photograph by Bibi Saint-Pol, 2007-05-31.) Odysseus and some of his men use a sharpened tree trunk (not to scale) to blind Polyphemus, the giant one-eyed Cyclops, who is shown snacking on the remains of one of their less fortunate companions. Source: Wikipedia. Click here to view source.