Cyclopes
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In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes are giant one-eyed creatures. Three kinds of Cyclopes can be distinguished. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Cyclopes are three brothers—Brontes, St
A first century AD head of a Cyclops from the Colosseum of Rome, Italy
"The Forge of the Cyclopes", a Dutch 16th-century print after a painting by Titian
Odysseus and his crew are blinding Polyphemus. Detail of a Proto-Attic amphora, circa 650 BC. Eleusis, Archaeological Museum, Inv. 2630.
'Cyclopean' walls at Mycenae.
Laestrygonians
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In Greek mythology, the Laestrygonians or Laestrygones were a tribe of man-eating giants. They were said to have sprung from Laestrygon, son of Poseidon.
Cyclopes
…off Sicily's north coast. The fifth-century BC historian Thucydides says that the "earliest inhabitants" of Sicily were reputed to be the Cyclopes and Laestrygones (another group of man-eating giants encountered by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey). Thucydides also reports the local belief that Hephaestus (along with…
The fourth panel of the so-called "Odyssey Landscapes" wall painting from the Vatican Museums in Rome, 60–40 BC
Fresco from Rome, c. 125 BC, from the "House of via Graziosa"
Adventures of Laestrygones, fresco from the Esquiline Hill, Rome