Cyclopes

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The Cyclopes are one-eyed giants from Greek mythology renowned as master craftsmen who forged Zeus’s thunderbolts and other divine weapons.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Cyclopes canonical 14
Cyclops 5
the Cyclopes 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf beings from Greek mythology
giants
mythological race
alignment varies by myth
appearsIn Hesiod's Theogony
surface form: Hesiod’s Theogony

Homer's Odyssey
surface form: Homer’s Odyssey

various later Greek and Roman works
associatedWith Hades
Hephaestus
Poseidon
Zeus
created Hades’s helm of invisibility
Poseidon’s trident
Zeus’s thunderbolts
various divine weapons
culture Ancient Greek
employer Olympian gods
eyeCount one
genre myth
giftedTo Hades
Poseidon
Zeus
languageOfMyths Ancient Greek
memberOf Greek mythological creatures
mythologicalTradition Greek mythology
notableCharacteristic great physical strength
master craftsmen
single eye in the middle of the forehead
notableMember Arges
Brontes
Polyphemus
Steropes
parentageVariant children of Poseidon (for some later Cyclopes)
children of Uranus and Gaia
portrayedAs dangerous man-eating giants in the Odyssey
helpful divine craftsmen in Hesiodic tradition
powerType metalworking
smithing
weapon forging
relatedConcept divine craftsmen
giants in mythology
roleInMyth allies of Zeus in the Titanomachy
symbol forge
single eye
thunderbolt
timeOfOrigin Archaic Greece
workplace Mount Etna
forge
underworld forges

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Titanomachy supportedBy Cyclopes
Gaia offspring Cyclopes
Polyphemus species Cyclopes
this entity surface form: Cyclops
Hecatoncheires sibling Cyclopes
Uranus fatherOf Cyclopes
Ourea sibling Cyclopes
this entity surface form: the Cyclopes
Laestrygonians similarTo Cyclopes
Greek mythology hasCreature Cyclopes
this entity surface form: Cyclops
Leopold Bloom majorEpisode Cyclopes
this entity surface form: Cyclops
GreekMonsters includes Cyclopes
Brontes collective Cyclopes
Brontes species Cyclopes
this entity surface form: Cyclops
Brontes category Cyclopes
Arges collective Cyclopes
thunderbolt of Zeus createdBy Cyclopes
Hundred-Handers siblingOf Cyclopes
Steropes memberOf Cyclopes
Οὐρανός parentOf Cyclopes
Telchines contrastedWith Cyclopes
Eye-Brawl species Cyclopes
this entity surface form: Cyclops