Monster legends fire bolt power12/16/2023 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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