Cyclopes
group · 3 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
the Cyclopes · his brethren · one-eyed children of ocean's god · the lawless Cyclopes
in the texts
Odyssey
A race of one-eyed giants ruled by Polyphemus, son of Poseidon.
Bear in mind, however, that Poseidon is still furious with Odysseus for having blinded an eye of Polyphemus king of the Cyclopes.
Now the Cyclopes were stronger in force [ biê] than they and plundered them, so their king Nausithoos moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from all other people.
They come and sit at our feasts just like one of our selves, and if any solitary wayfarer happens to stumble upon some one or other of them, they affect no concealment, for we are as near of kin to the gods as the Cyclopes and the savage giants are.
Cyclops
Race of one-eyed giants, sons of Poseidon, who dwell in caves on Mount Aetna, practice no agriculture, and eat human flesh
Silenus:
The Cyclopes, who have caves, not roofed houses.
Must I not give my brethren a share in this liquor?
Heracles
Mythical giant builders credited with constructing the massive walls of Mycenae, referenced twice as Heracles hallucinates an assault on that city.
I must take crow-bars and pick-axes, for I will shatter again with iron levers those city-walls which the Cyclopes squared with red plumb-line and mason’s tools.
But he, as though he really were at the Cyclopean walls, prized open the doors with levers, and, hurling down their posts, with one shaft laid low his wife and child.