Cyclopes

Noun

The word is derived from cyclops

Meaning

only the silky anteater

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

"And how often goddess, didst thou make trial of thy silver bow?", asks Callimachus for whom it is a Cydonian bow that the Cyclopes make for her (Callimachus, Hymn 3 to Artemis). Source: Internet

His great roar of frustration brings the rest of the Cyclopes down to the shore as Aeneas draws away in fear. Source: Internet

In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the help of the chthonic Cyclopes —among them his assistants in the forge, Brontes, Steropes and Pyracmon. citation Virg. Source: Internet

Female Cyclopes are not stated in any classical sources. Source: Internet

It is explained in Nonnus Dionysiaca that the Cyclopes killed many men in the war, which is also the only story that tells how they fight. Source: Internet

Mondi, pp. 17-18: "Why is there such a discrepancy between the nature of the Homeric Cyclopes and the nature of those found in Hesiod's Theogony? Source: Internet

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