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S8E4 - You Odyssey This: The Floating City and the Cannibals

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Odysseus and Polyphemus

Some scientists theorize that ancient creatures related to elephants that lived on Crete might be responsible for the story of the Cyclopies. They stood about 15 feet tall at the shoulder and had a large nasal opening in the middle of their skull that looks like an eye socket. This encounter with Polyphemus, and Odysseus, is in our episode called ancient Greek monster, mash.

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