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Cyclopes : one-eyed giants descended from Uranus & Gaea. Some of them were shepherds, like Polyphemus, who captured Odysseus, others worked in the smithy of Hephaestus, forging thunderbolts for Zeus, & often on the fortifications of ancient cities. In Homer, they are savage & lawless rustics.

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... barbarous people and strange creatures. At other times he was well received in unknown places and was offered gifts. The wandering took Odysseus to the Lotus-eaters, to the country of Page 23 Cyclope, to the Island of Aeolus, to the island of Circe, to the Sirens island, and thereafter passed through the channel between Scylla and Charybdis. The next stop was the Island of Calypso and then, to ...