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- Cyclopes – Mythopedia
The Cyclopes were huge creatures whose defining characteristic was a single large eye in the middle of their forehead There were three different kinds of Cyclopes: the Uranian Cyclopes, who fashioned Zeus’ lightning bolts; the savage Sicilian Cyclopes; and the Cyclopes who built the walls of cities such as Mycenae
- Uranian Cyclopes - Mythopedia
The Uranian Cyclopes boasted few epithets, perhaps because their names were already epithet-like (as discussed above, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges all have names that are evocative of thunder and lightning) Attributes and Iconography Like all Cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges each had one large eye in the middle of their forehead
- Polyphemus – Mythopedia
Like all Cyclopes, Polyphemus was a massive creature who mostly resembled a human, except for the one large eye in the middle of his forehead Uncivilized and cruel, Polyphemus had no respect for the gods and displayed cannibalistic tendencies, eating several of Odysseus’ men when they sought shelter on his island
- Cyclops (Play) - Mythopedia
In the Odyssey (the most familiar source for the myth), the hero Odysseus lands on the island of the Cyclopes while sailing home from Troy He and a few of his men are captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus and imprisoned in his cave home, whose entrance is blocked by an enormous boulder that only Polyphemus can move
- Hecatoncheires – Mythopedia
Zeus heeded Gaia’s advice and immediately freed the Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes In gratitude, they agreed to help him in his war against the Titans The Cyclopes fashioned a mighty lightning bolt and gave it to Zeus to be his weapon The Hecatoncheires, meanwhile, took up arms and made quick work of the Titans
- Zeus - Mythopedia
He freed the Cyclopes, a race of powerful one-eyed giants, and the Hecatoncheires, primordial beasts with a hundred hands each, from their prison in Tartarus Conceived by Uranus and Gaia (just like the Titans), the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires were so monstrous that when they were born, Uranus tried to stuff them back into Gaia’s womb
- Odyssey: Book 9 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Argument The Adventures of the Cicons, Lotophagi and Cyclops Ulysses begins the relation of his adventures: how, after the destruction of Troy, he with his companions made an incursion on the Cicons, by whom they were repulsed; and, meeting with a storm, were driven to the coast of the Lotophagi
- Odysseus – Mythopedia
Odysseus’ next stop was the island of the Cyclopes, a race of giant one-eyed shepherds One Cyclops, Polyphemus, managed to trap Odysseus and a few of his men in his cave and proceeded to eat them In fact, he would have eaten them all had Odysseus not devised a plan to escape
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