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  1. Cyclopes - Wikipedia

    • In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes are giant one-eyed creatures. Three groups of Cyclopes can be distinguished. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Cyclopes are the three brothers, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who made Zeus's weapon, the thunderbolt. In Homer's Odyssey, they are an uncivilized group of shepherds, the brethren of P… See more

    Kinds

    Three groups of Cyclopes can be distinguished: the Hesiodic, the Homeric and the wall-builders. In
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    Principal sources

    According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Uranus (Sky) mated with Gaia (Earth) and produced eighteen children. First came the twelve Titans, next came the three one-eyed Cyclopes:
    Then [Gaia… See more

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    Transformations of Polyphemus

    Depictions of the Cyclops Polyphemus have differed radically, depending on the literary genres in which he has appeared, and have given him an individual existence independent of the Homeric herdsman encountere… See more

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    Location

    From at least the fifth-century BC onwards, Cyclopes have been associated with the island of Sicily, or the volcanic Aeolian islands just off Sicily's north coast. The fifth-century BC historian Thucydides says that the "earlies… See more

    Etymology

    For the ancient Greeks the name "Cyclopes" meant "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes", derived from the Greek kúklos ("circle") and ops ("eye"). This meaning can be seen as early as Hesiod's Theogony (8th–7th ce… See more

    Possible origins

    A possible origin for one-eyed Cyclopes was advanced by the palaeontologist Othenio Abel in 1914. Abel proposed that fossil skulls of Pleistocene dwarf elephants, commonly found in coastal caves of Italy and Greec… See more

    See also

    List of one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction
    Polyphemus § Possible origins, for stories of other cyclopian giants similar to the story of Polyphemus's encounter with OdysseusSee more

     
  1. Polyphēmos, Epic Greek: [polýpʰɛːmos]; Latin: Polyphēmus [pɔlʏˈpʰeːmʊs]) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer 's Odyssey. His name means "abounding in songs and legends", "many-voiced" or "very famous".
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    Polyphemus, in Greek mythology, the most famous of the Cyclopes (one-eyed giants), son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and the nymph Thoösa. According to Ovid in Metamorphoses, Polyphemus loved Galatea, a Sicilian Nereid, and killed her lover Acis.
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    According to ancient Greek mythology, the Cyclops were giant humanoid creatures with a single eye in the middle of their forehead. These enigmatic beings trace their origins back to the primordial gods known as the Titans. The Cyclops were the offspring of Uranus, the sky god, and Gaia, the earth goddess.
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    Polyphemus was a cyclops, a type of one-eyed giant in Greek mythology. He is most famous for his interactions with the hero Odysseus. In Homer’s legend, Polyphemus is a brutish and unintelligent monster with no concept of civilisation or care for the law.
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