JMW Turner - Ulysses deriding Polyphemus, 1829, 133 x 203 cm. Ulysses and his men were sailing back from the Trojan War and stopped off at an island to look for food. Suddenly they came face to face with Polyphemus, a ferocious one-eyed giant Cyclops. The giant attacked and ate four of Ulysses’ men. That night Ulysses heated a sharpened stake in a fire and plunged it into the giant’s huge eye. They escaped back to their ship and sailed away. Turner has disguised Polyphemus as a mountain top and made the spirits of the sea look like waves in front of Ulysses’ ship. The horses of the sun god, Apollo, are painted just above the rising sun.