Abstract: The myth of Polyphemus and Galatea concerns the piercing gaze of the jealous Cyclops who seeks to thwart Acis and Galatea. The retellings of this story by Góngora and especially by Marino resume this theme of the gaze by focusing on the fatal moment when the Cyclops sees the lovers and kills Acis. Influenced by Marino, Tristan and Scudéry take as their subject, respectively in La Lyre and Le Cabinet, a variation on the gaze: the tender gazes exchanged by the lovers, the hateful gaze of the Cyclops, the pitying gaze of the spectator.
