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The Cyclops: Stories from Homer

The Cyclops: Stories from Homer

Paperback

Series: Stories from Homer

Ancient Greece

ISBN10: 1976253128
ISBN13: 9781976253126
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 10 2017
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.08
Height: 0.05 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
The Cyclops by Stories from Homer.... A cyclops, in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the center of his forehead. The word cyclops literally means round-eyed or circle-eyed.... Hesiod described three one-eyed cyclopes who served as builders, blacksmiths, and craftsmen: Brontes, Steropes and Arges, the sons of Uranus and Gaia, brothers of the Titans. Homer described another group of mortal herdsmen or shepherd cyclopes, the sons of Poseidon. Other accounts were written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil. In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus releases three cyclopes from the dark pit of Tartarus. They provide Zeus' thunderbolt, Hades' helmet of invisibility, and Poseidon's trident, and the gods use these weapons to defeat the Titans.

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