§ 4.) According to others, however, it was not the Cyclopes themselves that were killed, but their sons. 503.) Henceforth they remained the ministers of Zeus, but were afterwards killed by Apollo for having furnished Zeus with the thunderbolts to kill Asclepius. But Cronus again threw them into Tartarus, and as Zeus released them in his war against Cronus and the Titans, the Cyclopes provided Zeus with thunderbolts and lightning, Pluto with a helmet, and Poseidon with a trident. Together with the other Titans, they were cast by their father into Tartarus, but, instigated by their mother, they assisted Cronus in usurping the government. According to the ancient cosmogonies, the Cyclopes were the sons of Uranus and Ge they belonged to the Titans, and were three in number, whose names were Arges, Steropes, and Brontes, and each of them had only one eye on his forehead. The tradition about these beings has undergone several changes and modifications in its development in Greek mythology, though some traces of their identity remain visible throughout. BRONTES, STEROPES, ARGES, EURYALOS, ELATREUS, TRAKHIOS, HALIMEDES (Nonnus Dionysiaca 14.52)ĬYCLO′PES (Kuklôpes), that is, creatures with round or circular eyes. BRONTES, STEROPES (Statius Silvae 1.1.3) BRONTES, STEROPES, PYRAKMON (Virgil Aeneid 8.414) BRONTES, STEROPES, AKMONIDES (Ovid Fasti 4.287) BRONTES, STEROPES, ARGES (Hesiod Theogony139, Apollodorus 1.1 Callimachus Hymn to Artemis) OURANOS & GAIA (Hesiod Theogony 139, Titanomachia Frag 1, Apollodorus 1.1, Hyginus Pref) NAMES The tribe of younger Kyklopes which Odysseus encountered on his travels were a different breed. The lesser four, sons of the first, were slain by Apollon to avenge the death of his son Asklepios (Asclepius), who had been slain by Zeus with a Kyklops-forged lightning-bolt. Some say there were a total of seven forging Kyklopes. Zeus and his brothers later released them and in return they provided the god with his thunderbolts, Poseidon with his storm-raising trident, and Haides with a helm of invisibility. When the Titanes overthrew Ouranos, they drove the giants into the pit of Tartaros. THE ELDER KYKLOPES (Cyclopes) were three, orb-eyed, immortal giants who forged the lightning-bolts of Zeus.Īs soon as they were born, their father Ouranos (Uranus, the Sky) locked them away inside the belly of Earth, along with their stormy brothers, the hundred-handed Hekatonkheires (Hecatoncheires). Orb-Eyed ( kyklos, ops) Hephaestus and the Cyclopes at the forge, Greco-Roman fresco from Pompeii C1st A.D., Naples National Archaeological Museum
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