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The One-Eyed is an epithet of: Horatius Cocles ( fl. late 6th century BC ), Roman officer famed for defending a bridge against an army Antigonus I Monophthalmus (382–301 BC), Macedonian nobleman, general, satrap and king, founder of the Antigonid dynasty
Kerack, an alien race resembling large one-eyed prawns in the novel Camelot 30K; Magnus the Red, the one-eyed primarch of the Thousand Sons legion in Warhammer 40,000; Monoids, an alien race in the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark; Myo and other Abyssin aliens in Star Wars; Naga and his tribe of one-eyed violent mutants in the 1956 B-movie World ...
Monocular vision is known as seeing and using only one eye in the human species. Depth perception in monocular vision is reduced compared to binocular vision, but still is active primarily due to accommodation of the eye and motion parallax. The word monocular comes from the Greek root, mono for single, and the Latin root, oculus for eye.
An example of such a story is one from Georgia, in the Caucasus, which describes several brothers held prisoner by a giant one-eyed shepherd called "One-eye". After all but two of the brothers are roasted on a spit and eaten, the remaining two take the spit, heat it red hot, and stab it into the giant's eye.
A first century AD head of a Cyclops from the Roman Colosseum. In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (/ s aɪ ˈ k l oʊ p iː z / sy-KLOH-peez; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; [1] singular Cyclops / ˈ s aɪ k l ɒ p s / SY-klops; Κύκλωψ, Kýklōps) are giant one-eyed creatures. [2]
One Eyed Hǫtter Hatter, hat-wearer Hovi High One Hrafnaguð, Hrafnáss Hrafnagud Raven God Gylfaginning (38) Hrafnfreistuðr Raven tester Hrami Fetterer, Ripper Óðins nǫfn (4) Hrani Blusterer Latin inscription, Hrólfs saga kraka: Hrjóðr Roarer Óðins nǫfn (4) Hroptr, Hroptatýr Hropt, Hroptatyr Sage [37]
Perseus and the Graeae by Edward Burne-Jones (1892). In Greek mythology, the Graeae (/ ˈ ɡ r iː iː /; Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι Graiai, lit. ' old women ', alternatively spelled Graiai), also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides (' daughters of Phorcys '), [1] were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them.
Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). The Arimaspi (also Arimaspians, Arimaspos, and Arimaspoi; Ancient Greek: Ἀριμασπός, Ἀριμασποί) were a legendary tribe of one-eyed people of northern Scythia who lived in the foothills of the Riphean Mountains, variously identified with the Ural Mountains or the Carpathians. [1]