Which Cyclops was blinded by Odysseus in the Odyssey?

Which Cyclops was blinded by Odysseus in the Odyssey? Polyphemus was the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus and his men.

In Homer’s Odyssey, Polyphemus is a one-eyed giant and the son of Poseidon and the sea nymph Thoosa. He traps Odysseus and his crew in his cave and eats several of the sailors, violating the Greek tradition of hospitality.

Odysseus gives his name as “Nobody,” gets Polyphemus drunk with wine, and drives a sharpened wooden stake into the Cyclops’s eye while he sleeps. When Polyphemus calls for help, he says that “Nobody” is attacking him, so the other Cyclopes do not intervene.

The survivors escape by tying themselves beneath sheep. A common mix-up is confusing Polyphemus with the three Cyclopes—Arges, Steropes, and Brontes—who appear in other Greek myths as divine smiths associated with Zeus’s thunderbolts. Polyphemus belongs to a different Cyclops tradition centered on the Odyssey.