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Three groups of Cyclopes can be distinguished. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Cyclopes are the three brothers, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who made Zeus's weapon, the thunderbolt. In Homer's Odyssey, they are an uncivilized group of shepherds, the brethren of Polyphemus encountered by Odysseus.
Cyclopes (singular: Cyclops), one-eyed giants in Greek mythology, including Polyphemus. They had a single eye in the centre of their forehead. Polyphemus, a giant Cyclops shepherd in Greek mythology; Arges, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology; Brontes, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology
Arges is a child of Gaia and Uranus, and his siblings include his fellow cyclopes, Brontes and Steropes, along with the Titans and the Hecatoncheires. [4] After his birth, Uranus is said to have locked Arges and his cyclopes brothers in Tartarus out of fear, along with the Hundred Handed Ones. [5]
Writing more than three centuries after the Odyssey is thought to have been composed, Philoxenus of Cythera took up the myth of Polyphemus in his poem Cyclops or Galatea. The poem was written to be performed as a dithyramb, of which only fragments have survived, and was perhaps the first to provide a female love interest for the Cyclops.
The three Hundred-Handers were named Cottus, Briareus and Gyges. Cottus ( Κόττος ) is a common Thracian name, and is perhaps related to the name of the Thracian goddess Kotys . [ 2 ] The name Briareus ( Βριάρεως ) was probably formed from the Greek βριαρός meaning "strong". [ 3 ]
The third Summers brother is a plot point in X-Men comic books regarding the family of the superhero Cyclops, alias Scott Summers.The plot point was first referenced by writer Fabian Nicieza in X-Men vol. 2 #23 (1993), published by Marvel Comics.
Three! There’s a Saturday with the pre-teen Big Three (Randall, Kate, and Kevin), there’s the funeral, and Rebecca and Jack talking on the train the day she died.
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