# Eye Can't Get No Satisfaction: Polyphemus and Galatea in Theocritus' Idyll XI (Ad Navseam, Episode 199)

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Podcast: [Ad Navseam](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ad-navseam-1368151)
Published: 2025-10-30T13:17:33+00:00
Episode link: https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/eye-cant-get-no-satisfaction-polyphemus-and-galatea-in-theocritus-idyll-xi-ad-navseam-episode-199/
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Duration seconds: 4130

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"Whiter than cottage cheese", "bright as an unripe grape"? This is some world class woo-pitching, and Polyphemus the one-eyed wonder has high hopes that such romantic language will win fair Galatea, sea nymph extraordinaire, to his hirsute side. He may not be much to look at, monobrow and all, but the Cyclops boasts that he comes with many benefits: great musical skill, a cheez whiz packed man cave, and 1000 head of cattle. As Theocritus the famous Syracusan poet tells the tale, should we take it as farce? Or, is the song a serious philosophical inquiry into the healing nature of poetry? Join the guys this week as they take a close look at Idyll XI, an awkward, adolescent love song that the Alexandrian poet composes for that shaggy Cyclops as a backstory, before he encountered Odysseus. The insights of Brooks Otis, Erling Holtsmark, Robert Schmiel, and yes, Dronebrella, set the stage. So, cue your mixtape with Air Supply or Survivor, pray for gills, and don't miss this one!

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