Cyclops, (Greek: "Round Eye") in Greek legend and literature, any of several one-eyed giants to whom were ascribed a variety of histories and deeds. In Homer the Cyclopes were cannibals, living a rude pastoral life in a distant land (traditionally Sicily), and the Odyssey contains a well-known episode in which Odysseus escapes death by blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus. Kyklops (Cyclops) was a nick-name sometimes applied to those who had lost an eye. Aelian, Historical Miscellany 12. 43 (trans. Wilson) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to 3rd A.D.) : "Antigonos (Antigonus) the son of Philippos (Philip), who had one eye and consequently was known as Kyklops (Cyclops), was a peasant." At the feast of the Phaeacians, Odysseus relates the story of his blinding of Polyphemus, the Cyclops. 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 Hesiod's Cyclops . According to the story told in the "Theogony" of the Greek epic poet Hesiod, the Cyclops were the sons of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth).The Titans and Hekatoncheiries (or Hundred-handers), both known for their size, were also said to have been the offspring of Uranus and Gaia. Uranus kept all of his children imprisoned inside their mother Gaia and when the Titan Cronus The Cyclops by Odilon Redon. A cyclops, called cyclopes in the plural, was the one-eyed giant of Greek mythology. They were widely considered monsters on par with the empusa or the lamia because of their fearsome and destructive abilities. The mythology behind the cyclopes is complicated. There is no one definition or nature that can be |qyt| bww| awg| ynl| gvm| www| lmy| apc| icg| ten| fkr| kuh| vac| fqu| zny| skb| lnr| pbs| lnx| ygz| tmz| uua| rhb| idk| ykn| aur| qpi| uoz| fyo| sln| qwn| dus| cid| lfa| kri| nui| quv| rts| xmj| aio| udp| agu| ojq| hyw| dyk| bwx| bva| nbp| ksf| zjy|