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== Possible death == In [[Hesiod]]'s [[Catalogue of Women]], the three Cyclopes, including Arges, are said to have been killed by [[Apollo]] in retaliation for his son [[Asclepius]] being killed by a lightning bolt.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA66 p. 66].</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Henderson|first=Jeffrey|title=Alcestis|url=https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-alcestis/1994/pb_LCL012.155.xml|access-date=2020-10-15|website=Loeb Classical Library|language=en}}</ref> However, this contradicts Hesiod's [[Theogony]], which implies the cyclopes are immortal. The mythographer [[Pherecydes of Athens]] fixes this discrepancy by stating that the cyclopes' sons were killed by Apollo, rather than the cyclopes themselves.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Fowler|first1=Robert Louis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA298|title=Early Greek Mythography: Texts|last2=Flaccus|first2=Quintus Horatius|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-814740-4|language=el}}</ref> Another source suggests that Zeus killed the cyclopes to prevent them from making lightning bolts for anyone other than himself.<ref>Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 p. 54].</ref>
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