Overview
- Cyclops are mythological creatures of Ancient Greece that have allied with the monster-god Typhon and joined his army to overthrow the Olympian Gods and conquer the mortal world.
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- The Cyclops race was born to various deities all over Greece and some eventually formed a society in the southwestern part of Sicily where they were considered to have become cannibals, living a rude pastoral life as a wild race of lawless creatures who possess neither social manners nor fear of the Gods. They abstained from agriculture and laws other than "every man for himself". They actively ate human beings and lived with their wives and children in caves ruling over them with arbitrary power.
- Polyphemus was a man-eating Cyclops who fell in love with a beautiful nymph called Galatea who rejected him in favour for a man named Acis. Polyphemus, enraged by the rejection, threw Acis on a massive rock and killed him. The blood of Acis formed a stream, which still bears his name today. Some time later, the hero Odysseus arrives on the island of the Polyphemus on his way home to Ithica and led his men into a cave full of food unknowing of who the owner was. Polyphemus sealed the cave and the crew within it, eating a few of them. Odysseus managed to trick the Cyclops into getting drunk off of strong wine and told the monster his name was ‘No One.’ Polyphemus fell asleep, and the hero blinded him with a wooden stake, when the other giants came to help, Polyphemus told him ‘No One’ had attacked him, and so they left him. Odysseus and his men bound themselves to the bellies of Polyphemus’s sheep and escaped when the giant let them out to graze. Odysseus could not help but boast about his victory over his defeated adversary and told Polyphemus his name which in turn led to Poseidon, Polyphemus' father, punishing him and causing him to deviate from his route home even more.
- Cyclops are able to see objects up to 2km away without assistance; however, they have poor depth perception, making it difficult for them to navigate 3-dimensional spaces.
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