Cyclops

Aigyptios, a man bent double with age, and of infinite experience, was the first to speak His son Antiphos had gone with Odysseus to Ilion, land of noble steeds, but the savage Cyclops had killed him when they were all shut up in the cave, and had cooked his last dinner for him.

but he beat his breast and said, "Heart, be still, you had worse than this to bear on the day when the terrible Cyclops ate your brave companions;

He told her all about the Cyclops and how he had punished him for having so ruthlessly eaten his brave comrades;

in most states such matters have been entirely neglected, and every man lives as he likes, in Cyclops fashion laying down the law For children and for spouse.

Or rather perhaps your people resembles not Heracles, but some Centaur or Cyclops who has drunk and is in love, in body strong and great, but in mind untaught.

past Cyclops the savage shepherd, and Ligurian Circe who turns men to swine;

” These lines are applied to the Cyclops, and it may not perhaps be an altogether fanciful idea when I suggest that the Cyclops is Homer’s type of an alien and less advanced civilisation;

Aristotle and the writers who have followed him suppose that the larger groups of men discernible in the twilight of history have somehow grown out of isolated families like that of the Homeric Cyclops.

They both illustrate it by the Homeric story of the ‘Cyclops,’ ‘who had neither assemblies for consultation nor dooms, but each exercised jurisdiction over (issued dooms to) his wives and children, and they paid no regard to one another.