In the Odyssey, Odysseus and his men find themselves in the land of the children of Poseidon, the Cyclopes (Cyclops). These giants, with one round eye in the center of their foreheads, consider humans as food. Odysseus eventually figures a way out of the cave in which he and his men have been imprisoned that involves blinding the Cyclops
Polyphemus. Odysseus pokes out Polyphemus' eye with a sharp stick.