Cyclops
c. 800 BCE – 400 CEattested
Sicily and the Greek world
- Greek
One-eyed giants who forged Zeus's thunderbolts in Hesiod and ate visitors in Homer. Polyphemus, blinded by Odysseus, called down Poseidon's curse that powered the whole Odyssey.
Known for
- single eye
- smiths of the thunderbolt
- Polyphemus blinded
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.