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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYCLOPES (KUKXW9rer, the See also:round-eyed, plural of Cyclops)  , a type of beings variously described in See also:Greek See also:mythology . In See also:Homer they are gigantic See also:cave-dwellers, cannibals having only one See also:eye, living a See also:pastoral See also:life in the far See also:west (See also:Sicily), ignorant of See also:law and See also:order, fearing neither gods nor men . The most prominent among them was See also:Polyphemus . In See also:Hesiod ( Theogony, 264) they are the three sons of See also:Uranus and Gaea—Brontes, Steropes and Arges, —See also:storm-gods belonging to the See also:family of the See also:Titans, who furnished See also:Zeus with See also:thunder and See also:lightning out of gratitude for his having released them from See also:Tartarus . They were slain by See also:Apollo for having forged the thunderbolt with which Zeus slew Asclepius . Later See also:legend transferred their See also:abode to Mt Aetna, the Lipari islands or See also:Lemnos, where they assisted See also:Hephaestus at his forge . A third class of See also:Cyclopes are the builders of the so-called " Cyclopean " walls of See also:Mycenae and See also:Tiryns, giants with arms in their belly, who were said to have been brought by Proetus from See also:Lycia to See also:Argos, his See also:original See also:home (See also:Pausanias ii . 16 . 5; 25 . 8) . Like the See also:Curetes and Telchines they are mythical types of pre-historic workmen and architects, and as such the See also:objects of See also:worship . The See also:standard See also:work on these and similar mythological characters is M .

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Mayer, See also:Die Giganten and Titanen (1887); see also A . Boltz, Die Kyklopen (1885), who endeavours to show that they were an See also:historical See also:people; W . Mannhardt, Wald- and Feldkulte (1904); J . E . See also:Harrison, Myths of the Odyssey (1882); and See also:article in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie (bibliography) .

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