Facts about Cyclops in Greek Mythology

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   Hesiod's Theogony presents the original Cyclopes as divine craftsmen imprisoned in Tartarus by their father Uranus before being freed by Zeus.

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   Polyphemus tricked Odysseus by asking his name, then reported to his father Poseidon that 'Nobody' had blinded him, delaying rescue.

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   Odysseus escaped Polyphemus by blinding the Cyclops with a sharpened olive wood stake and hiding his men beneath the giant's sheep.

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   The earlier Cyclopes in Greek mythology, described in Hesiod's Theogony, were three brothers named Brontes, Steropes, and Arges who forged Zeus's thunderbolts.

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   In Homer's Odyssey, the Cyclops Polyphemus is the son of the sea god Poseidon, which explains his father's wrath against Odysseus.

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