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  2. Cyclopes - Wikipedia

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    Later sources tell us why: Apollo's son Asclepius had been killed by Zeus' thunderbolt, and Apollo killed the Cyclopes, the makers of the thunderbolt, in revenge. [15] According to a scholiast on Euripides' Alcestis , the fifth-century BC mythographer Pherecydes supplied the same motive, but said that Apollo, rather than killing the Cyclopes ...

  3. The Tyrant's Tomb - Wikipedia

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    Apollo wakes up in a bed and Meg explains that he has been asleep for a day and a half. There is a funeral for Jason that night, and Lupa shows up to tell Apollo to get divine help to defeat their enemies. Apollo and Frank go to Ella the harpy and Tyson the cyclops, who are recreating the Sibylline Books. They get a prophecy regarding Tarquin's ...

  4. List of mortals in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Medea, a sorceress and wife of Jason, who killed her own children to punish Jason for his infidelity; Medusa, a mortal woman transformed into a hideous gorgon by Athena; Niobe, a daughter of Tantalus who declared herself to be superior to Leto, causing Artemis and Apollo to kill her fourteen children; Pandora, the first woman

  5. List of characters in mythology novels by Rick Riordan

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    In his mortal form, Apollo's name is Lester Papadopoulos. Apollo has to adjust to a life of mortality and questing to regain his former powers and lifestyle. Following a meeting with two thugs in Manhattan, Apollo encounters a demigod called Meg McCaffrey, who claims him as her servant until he regains his godhood. Apollo is released by Meg ...

  6. Leto - Wikipedia

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    When Apollo killed the Cyclopes in revenge for Zeus slaying his son Asclepius, a gifted healer who could bring the dead back to life, with a thunderbolt, Zeus was about to punish Apollo by throwing him into Tartarus, but Leto interceded for him, and Apollo became bondman to a mortal king named Admetus instead.

  7. Steropes - Wikipedia

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    In Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, the three Cyclopes, including Steropes, are said to have been killed by Apollo in retaliation for his son Asclepius being killed by a lightning bolt. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] However, this contradicts Hesiod's Theogony , which implies the cyclopes are immortal.

  8. The Death of Hyacinthos - Wikipedia

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    He kills the Cyclops who had forged the lightning that the master of the gods used to kill his son Asclepius. Chased from the heavens; he seeks refuge with Admetus who entrusts him with his herds. During his stay on Earth, Apollo invents the lyre, skins Marsias alive who had dared challenge him to a contest of music, and made Midas grow donkey ...

  9. The Trials of Apollo - Wikipedia

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    After some searching, Apollo runs past a laptop. Nero video calls the laptop and tells him that he has a plan B: to release Sassanid gas, which is extremely poisonous, and kill everyone in the building, unless Apollo comes to the throne room in fifteen minutes. Apollo tells the troglodytes about the gas trap, and they run to disable it.