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Odysseus, in another of his adventures on his homeward journey from the Trojan War, confronts a cyclops. Scene from Wrath of the Gods.


Ocean. A river, personified as a god, which ushered from the Underworld and flowed around the flat earth in a circle. When he journeyed to Hades to consult the prophet Teiresias, the hero Odysseus crossed the stream of Ocean to reach the kingdom of the dead.