What’s a Cyclops?

The Cyclopes were one-eyed beings in Greek mythology, with different traditions referring to different types. Hesiod told of three sons of Uranus and Gaea who created thunderbolts and other weapons for the gods. Homer’s Odyssey features the Cyclops Polyphemus, who imprisons Odysseus and his men but is eventually defeated. Polyphemus also appears in other myths, […]

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