Editing Cyclopes (section)

== Principal sources ==
===Hesiod===
According to the ''[[Theogony]]'' of [[Hesiod]], [[Uranus (god)|Uranus]] (Sky) mated with [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]] (Earth) and produced eighteen children.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA65 pp. 65&ndash;66]; Gantz, p. 10; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.13.xml 126&ndash;153]. Compare with [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.1 1.1.1&ndash;3]</ref> First came the twelve [[Titans (mythology)|Titans]], next came the three one-eyed Cyclopes:

{{Blockquote|Then [Gaia] bore the Cyclopes, who have very violent hearts, Brontes (Thunder) and Steropes (Lightning) and strong-spirited Arges (Bright), those who gave thunder to Zeus and fashioned the thunderbolt. These were like the gods in other regards, but only one eye was set in the middle of their foreheads;<ref>According to west 1966 on line 142 '''φεοῖς ἐναλίγκιοι''': "Hesiod does not mean that they are not themselves gods, only that in most respects their physique is like that of an ordinary god".</ref> and they were called Cyclopes (Circle-eyed) by name, since a single circle-shaped eye was set in their foreheads. Strength and force and contrivances were in their works.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.15.xml 139&ndash;146].</ref>}}

Following the Cyclopes, Gaia next gave birth to three more monstrous brothers, the [[Hecatoncheires]], or Hundred-Handed Giants. Uranus hated his monstrous children,<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.15.xml 154&ndash;155]. Hesiod's text is not entirely clear about whether Uranus hated only his monstrous offspring, or all of them, including the comely Titans. Hard,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA67 p. 67], West 1988, p. 7, and Caldwell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GyIKBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 p. 37 on lines 154–160], make it all eighteen, while Gantz, p. 10, says "likely all eighteen", and Most 2018a, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.15.xml p. 15 n. 8], says "apparently only the ... Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers are meant", and not the twelve Titans. See also West 1966, p. 206 on lines 139&ndash;53, p. 213 line 154 '''γὰρ'''.  Why Uranus hated his children is also not clear. Gantz, p. 10 says: "The reason for [Uranus'] hatred may be [his children's] horrible appearance, though Hesiod does not quite say this"; while Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA67 p. 67] says: "Although Hesiod is vague about the cause of his hatred, it would seem that he took a dislike to them because they were terrible to behold". However, West 1966, p. 213 on line 155, says that Uranus hated his children because of their "fearsome nature".</ref> and as soon as each was born, he imprisoned them underground, somewhere deep inside Gaia.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.15.xml 156&ndash;158]. Aside from their being hated by Uranus, Hesiod does not say ''why'' the Cyclopes were imprisoned by Uranus, but the reason may have been the same as the reason Hesiod gives for the Hundred-Handers' imprisonment, Uranus being afraid of their power, see Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 p. 53].  The hiding place inside Gaia is presumably her womb, see West 1966, p. 214 on line 158; Caldwell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GyIKBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 p. 37 on lines 154–160]; Gantz, p. 10. This place seems also to be the same place as [[Tartarus]], see West 1966, p. 338 on line 618, and Caldwell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GyIKBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 p. 37 on lines 154–160].</ref> Eventually Uranus' son, the Titan [[Cronus]], castrated Uranus, becoming the new ruler of the cosmos, but he did not release his brothers, the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires, from their imprisonment in [[Tartarus]].<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.17.xml 173&ndash;182]. Although the castration of Uranus results in the release of the Titans, it did not, apparently, also result in the release of the Cyclopes or the Hundred-Handers, see Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 p. 26]; Hard, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA67 67], [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA68 68]; West 1966, p. 206 on lines on lines 139&ndash;53.</ref>

For this failing, Gaia foretold that Cronus would eventually be overthrown by one of his children, as he had overthrown his own father.  To prevent this, as each of his children were born, Cronus swallowed them whole; as gods they were not killed, but imprisoned within his belly.  His wife, Rhea, sought her mother's advice to avoid losing all of her children in this way, and Gaia advised her to give Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes.  In this way, Zeus was spared the fate of his elder siblings, and was hidden away by his mother.  When he was grown, Zeus forced his father to vomit up his siblings, who rebelled against the Titans.  Zeus released the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires, who became his allies.  While the Hundred-Handed Giants fought alongside Zeus and his siblings, the Cyclopes gave Zeus his great weapon, the thunderbolt, with the aid of which he was eventually able to overthrow the Titans, establishing himself as the ruler of the cosmos.<ref>Gantz, p. 44; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.43.xml 501&ndash;506].</ref>

===Homer===
[[File:Odysseus and cyclops (orcus) Tomb of Orcus.jpg|thumb|Fresco of [[Odysseus]] and the Cyclops in the [[Tomb of Orcus]], [[Tarquinia]], 4th century BC]]
[[File:Guido Reni - Polyphemus - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|The blinded Polyphemus seeks vengeance on Odysseus: [[Guido Reni]]'s painting in the [[Capitoline Museums]].]]

In Book 9 of the ''[[Odyssey]]'', Odysseus describes to his hosts the [[Phaeacians]] his encounter with the Cyclops [[Polyphemus]].<ref>According to Mondi, p. 17, it is the general consensus that Homer's Polyphemus story is drawn from an older folk tradition "attested throughout Europe as well as parts of northern Africa and the Near East" of "the escape from a blinded ogre".</ref> Having just left the land of the [[Lotus-eaters]], Odysseus says "Thence we sailed on, grieved at heart, and we came to the land of the Cyclopes".<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D9%3Acard%3D82 9.105&ndash;106]. Heubeck and Hoekstra, p. 19 on lines 105&ndash;566; "After the Lotus-eaters Odysseus comes to the Cyclopes presumably on the same day." As Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 p. 53] describes it, the  Homeric Cyclopes "inhabit a world outside space and time; the adventure comes in the geographically indeterminate part of the poem, and its inhabitants have been on their island presumably for ever."</ref>
Homer had already (Book 6) described the Cyclopes as "men overweening in pride who plundered [their neighbors the Phaeacians] continually",<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:6.1-6.47 6.4&ndash;8].</ref> driving the Phaeacians from their home. In Book 9, Homer gives a more detailed description of the Cyclopes as:
{{Blockquote|an overweening and lawless folk, who, trusting in the immortal gods, plant nothing with their hands nor plough; but all these things spring up for them without sowing or ploughing, wheat, and barley, and vines, which bear the rich clusters of wine, and the rain of Zeus gives them increase. Neither assemblies for council have they, nor appointed laws, but they dwell on the peaks of lofty mountains in hollow caves, and each one is lawgiver to his children and his wives, and they reck nothing one of another.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D9%3Acard%3D82 9.105&ndash;115].</ref>}}

According to Homer, the Cyclopes have no ships, nor ship-wrights, nor other craftsman, and know nothing of agriculture.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:9.116-9.160 9.125&ndash;135].</ref> They have no regard for Zeus or the other gods, for the Cyclopes hold themselves to be "better far than they".<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:9.231-9.280 9.275&ndash;278].</ref>

Homer says that "godlike" Polyphemus, the son of [[Poseidon]] and the nymph [[Thoosa]], the daughter of [[Phorcys]], is the "greatest among all the Cyclopes".<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'', [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:1.44-1.79 1.68&ndash;73]. Heubeck, Hainsworth and West, p. 69 on line 71-3, notes that "Thoosa seems to be an ''ad hoc'' invention".</ref> Homer describes Polyphemus as a shepherd who:
{{Blockquote|mingled not with others, but lived apart, with his heart set on lawlessness. For he was fashioned a wondrous monster, and was not like a man that lives by bread, but like a wooded peak of lofty mountains, which stands out to view alone, apart from the rest,<ref>[[Homer]] ''[[Odyssey]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:9.161-9.192 9.187&ndash;192].</ref> ... [and as] a savage man that knew naught of justice or of law.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:9.193-9.230 9.215].</ref>}}

Although Homer does not say explicitly that Polyphemus is one-eyed, for the account of his blinding to make sense he must be.<ref>West 1966 on line 139, "the story of [Polyphemus'] blinding presupposes that he is one-eyed like Hesiod's Cyclopes, though this is not explicitly stated"; Heubeck and Hoekstra, p. 20 on lines 106-15: "the account of the blinding presupposes a one-eyed Cyclopes, even though the poet, surely intentionally ... omits any direct reference to this detail."</ref> If Homer meant for the other Cyclopes to be assumed (as they usually are) to be like Polyphemus, then they too will be one-eyed sons of Poseidon; however Homer says nothing explicit about either the parentage or appearance of the other Cyclopes.<ref>Gantz, pp. 12&ndash;13 says that the Homeric Cyclopes are: "sons of Poseidon (actually Homer ''says'' only that Polyphemos is a son of Poseidon), who ... share with their Hesiodic namesakes just the feature of the single eye (if in fact they are so equipped and not just Polyphemos: the general description at ''Od'' 9.106-15 says nothing on the subject)." See also Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA66 p. 66], [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA611 p. 611 n. 10]; Heubeck, Hainsworth, and West, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tMsJyWjIfV0C&pg=PA84 p. 84 on line 69]. However for example, Hansen, p. 144; Grimal, p. 119; Tripp, p. 181; and [[Herbert Jennings Rose|Rose]], p. 304; all simply describe the Homeric Cyclopes as one-eyed, without further qualification.</ref>

===Euripides===
The Hesiodic Cyclopes: makers of Zeus' thunderbolts, the Homeric Cyclopes: brothers of [[Polyphemus]], and the Cyclopean wall-builders, all figure in the plays of the fifth-century BC playwright [[Euripides]]. In his  play ''[[Alcestis (play)|Alcestis]]'', where we are told that the Cyclopes who forged Zeus' thunderbolts, were killed by Apollo. The prologue of that play has Apollo explain:

{{Blockquote|House of Admetus! In you I brought myself to taste the bread of menial servitude, god though I am. Zeus was the cause: he killed my son Asclepius, striking him in the chest with the lightning bolt, and in anger at this I slew the Cyclopes who forged Zeus’s fire. As my punishment for this Zeus compelled me to be a serf in the house of a mortal.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Alcestis (play)|Alcestis]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-alcestis/1994/pb_LCL012.155.xml 5&ndash;7]. Compare with [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.10.4 3.10.4], which says that Zeus killed Asclepius with his thunderbolt, and "Angry on that account, Apollo slew the Cyclopes who had fashioned the thunderbolt for Zeus". See also [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#71 4.71.3]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 49.</ref>}}

Euripides' [[satyr play]] ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'' tells the story of [[Odysseus]]' encounter with the Cyclops [[Polyphemus]], famously told in [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]''. It takes place on the island of [[Sicily]] near the volcano [[Mount Etna]] where, according to the play, "Poseidon’s one-eyed sons, the man-slaying Cyclopes, dwell in their remote caves."<ref name="auto4"/> Euripides describes the land where Polyphemus' brothers live, as having no "walls and city battlements", and a place where "no men dwell".<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-cyclops/1994/pb_LCL012.71.xml 114&ndash;116].</ref> The Cyclopes have no rulers and no government, "they are solitaries: no one is anyone’s subject."<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-cyclops/1994/pb_LCL012.71.xml 119&ndash;120].</ref> They grow no crops, living only "on milk and cheese and the flesh of sheep."<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-cyclops/1994/pb_LCL012.71.xml 121&ndash;122].</ref> They have no wine, "hence the land they dwell in knows no dancing".<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-cyclops/1994/pb_LCL012.71.xml 123&ndash;124].</ref> They show no respect for the important Greek value of [[Xenia (Greek)|Xenia]] ("guest friendship). When Odysseus asks if they are pious and hospitable toward strangers (''φιλόξενοι δὲ χὤσιοι περὶ ξένους''), he is told: "most delicious, they maintain, is the flesh of strangers ... everyone who has come here has been slaughtered."<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-cyclops/1994/pb_LCL012.71.xml 125&ndash;128].</ref>

Several of Euripides' plays also make reference to the Cyclopean wall-builders.  Euripides calls their walls "heaven-high" (''οὐράνια''),<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Electra (Euripides play)|Electra]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-electra/1998/pb_LCL009.279.xml 1159], ''[[The Trojan Women|Trojan Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-trojan_women/1999/pb_LCL010.119.xml 1087&ndash;1088].</ref> describes "the Cyclopean foundations" of Mycenae as "fitted snug with red plumbline and mason’s hammer",<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Herakles (Euripides)|Heracles]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-heracles/1998/pb_LCL009.401.xml 943&ndash;946].</ref> and calls  Mycenae "O hearth built by the Cyclopes".<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-iphigenia_taurians/1999/pb_LCL010.241.xml 845&ndash;846].</ref> He calls [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] "the city built by the Cyclopes",<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Herakles (Euripides)|Heracles]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-heracles/1998/pb_LCL009.311.xml 15].</ref> refers to "the temples the Cyclopes built"<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Iphigenia in Aulis]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-iphigenia-aulis/2003/pb_LCL495.181.xml 152].</ref> and describes the "fortress of Perseus" as "the work of Cyclopean hands".<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Iphigenia in Aulis]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-iphigenia-aulis/2003/pb_LCL495.331.xml 1500&ndash;1501].</ref>

=== Callimachus ===
For the third-century BC poet [[Callimachus]], the Hesiodic Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes and Arges, become assistants at the forge of the smith-god [[Hephaestus]]. Callimachus has the Cyclopes make [[Artemis]]' bow, arrows and quiver, just as they had (apparently) made those of [[Apollo]].<ref>[[Callimachus]], ''Hymn III to Artemis'' [https://archive.org/stream/callimachuslycop00calluoft#page/60/mode/2up 8-10]; [https://archive.org/stream/callimachuslycop00calluoft#page/66/mode/2up 80&ndash;83].</ref> Callimachus locates the Cyclopes on the island of [[Lipari]], the largest of the [[Aeolian Islands]] in the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] off the northern coast of [[Sicily]], where Artemis finds them "at the anvils of Hephaestus" making a horse-trough for Poseidon:

{{Blockquote|And the nymphs were affrighted when they saw the terrible monsters like unto the crags of Ossa: all had single eyes beneath their brows, like a shield of fourfold hide for size, glaring terribly from under; and when they heard the din of the anvil echoing loudly, and the great blast of the bellows and the heavy groaning of the Cyclopes themselves. For Aetna cried aloud, and Trinacia cried, the seat of the Sicanians, cried too their neighbour Italy, and Cyrnos therewithal uttered a mighty noise, when they lifted their hammers above their shoulders and smote with rhythmic swing the bronze glowing from the furnace or iron, labouring greatly. Wherefore the daughters of Oceanus could not untroubled look upon them face to face nor endure the din in their ears. No shame to them! on those not even the daughters of the Blessed look without shuddering, though long past childhood’s years. But when any of the maidens doth disobedience to her mother, the mother calls the Cyclopes to her child—Arges or Steropes; and from within the house comes Hermes, stained with burnt ashes. And straightway he plays bogey to the child and she runs into her mother’s lap, with her hands upon her eyes. But thou, Maiden, even earlier, while yet but three years old, when Leto came bearing thee in her arms at the bidding of Hephaestus that he might give thee handsel and Brontes set thee on his stout knees—thou didst pluck the shaggy hair of his great breast and tear it out by force. And even unto this day the mid part of his breast remains hairless, even as when mange settles on a man’s temples and eats away the hair.<ref>[[Callimachus]], ''Hymn III to Artemis'' [https://archive.org/stream/callimachuslycop00calluoft#page/64/mode/2up 46&ndash;79].</ref>}}

And Artemis asks:

{{Blockquote|Cyclopes, for me too fashion ye a Cydonian bow and arrows and a hollow casket for my shafts; for I also am a child of Leto, even as Apollo. And if I with my bow shall slay some wild creature or monstrous beast, that shall the Cyclopes eat.<ref>[[Callimachus]], ''Hymn III to Artemis'' [https://archive.org/stream/callimachuslycop00calluoft#page/66/mode/2up 81&ndash;85].</ref>}}

===Virgil===
The first-century BC [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] poet [[Virgil]] seems to combine the Cyclopes of Hesiod with those of Homer, having them live alongside each other in the same part of Sicily.<ref name="auto2"/> In his Latin epic ''[[Aeneid]]'', Virgil has the hero [[Aeneas]] follow in the footsteps of [[Odysseus]], the hero of Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]''.  Approaching Sicily and Mount Etna, in Book 3 of the ''Aeneid'', Aeneas manages to survive the dangerous [[Charybdis]], and at sundown comes to the land of the Cyclopes, while "near at hand Aetna thunders".<ref name="auto1">[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/virgil-aeneid/1916/pb_LCL063.409.xml 3.554&ndash;571].</ref> The Cyclopes are described as being "in shape and size like Polyphemus ... a hundred other monstrous Cyclopes [who] dwell all along these curved shores and roam the high mountains."<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/virgil-aeneid/1916/pb_LCL063.415.xml 3.641&ndash;644].</ref> After narrowly escaping from Polyphemus, Aeneas tells how, responding to the Cyclops' "mighty roar":
{{Blockquote|the race of the Cyclopes, roused from the woods and high mountains, rush to the harbour and throng the shores. We see them, standing impotent with glaring eye, the Aetnean brotherhood, their heads towering to the sky, a grim conclave: even as when on a mountaintop lofty oaks or cone-clad cypresses stand in mass, a high forest of Jove or grove of Diana.<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/virgil-aeneid/1916/pb_LCL063.417.xml 3.672&ndash;681].</ref>}}

Later, in Book 8 of the same poem, Virgil has the Hesiodic Cyclopes Brontes and Steropes, along with a third Cyclopes which he names Pyracmon, work in an extensive network of caverns stretching from Mount Etna to the [[Aeolian Islands]].<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/virgil-aeneid/1916/pb_LCL064.89.xml 8.416&ndash;423].</ref> As the assistants of the smith-god [[Vulcan (mythology)|Vulcan]], they forge various items for the gods: thunderbolts for [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], a chariot for [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]], and armor for [[Minerva]]:
{{Blockquote|In the vast cave the Cyclopes were forging iron—Brontes and Steropes and bare-limbed Pyracmon. They had a thunderbolt, which their hands had shaped, like the many that the Father hurls down from all over heaven upon earth, in part already polished, while part remained unfinished. Three shafts of twisted hail they had added to it, three of watery cloud, three of ruddy flame and the winged South Wind; now they were blending into the work terrifying flashes, noise, and fear, and wrath with pursuing flames. Elsewhere they were hurrying on for Mars a chariot and flying wheels, with which he stirs upmen and cities; and eagerly with golden scales of serpents were burnishing the awful aegis, armour of wrathful Pallas, the interwoven snakes, and on the breast of the goddess the Gorgon herself, with neck severed and eyes revolving.<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/virgil-aeneid/1916/pb_LCL064.91.xml 8.424&ndash;438].</ref>}}

===Apollodorus===
The mythographer [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], gives an account of the Hesiodic Cyclopes similar to that of Hesiod's, but with some differences, and additional details.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA68 pp. 68&ndash;69]; Gantz, pp. 2, 45. As for Apollodorus' sources, Hard, p. 68, says that Apollodorus' version "perhaps derived from the lost ''[[Titanomachy (epic poem)|Titanomachia]]'' or from the [[Orphism (religion)|Orphic]] literature"; see also Gantz, p. 2; for a detailed discussion of Apollodorus' sources for his account of the early history of the gods, see West 1983, pp. 121&ndash;126.</ref> According to Apollodorus, the Cyclopes were born after the Hundred-Handers, but before the Titans (unlike Hesiod who makes the Titans the eldest and the Hundred-Handers the youngest).<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.1.1 1.1.1&ndash;3].</ref>

Uranus bound the Hundred-Handers and the Cyclopes, and cast them all into [[Tartarus]], "a gloomy place in Hades as far distant from earth as earth is distant from the sky." But the Titans are, apparently, allowed to remain free (unlike in Hesiod).<ref>Hard, p. 68; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.1.2 1.1.2].</ref> When the Titans overthrew Uranus, they freed the Hundred-Handers and Cyclopes (unlike in Hesiod, where they apparently remained imprisoned), and made Cronus their sovereign.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.1.4 1.1.4].</ref> But Cronus once again bound the six brothers, and reimprisoned them in Tartarus.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.1.5 1.1.5]. The release and reimprisonment of the Hundred-Handers and Cyclopes, was perhaps a way to solve the problem in Hesiod's account of why the castration of Uranus, which released the Titans, did not also apparently release the six brothers, see Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 p. 26]; West 1966, p. 206 on lines on lines 139&ndash;53.</ref>

As in Hesiod's account, Rhea saved Zeus from being swallowed by Cronus, and Zeus was eventually able to free his siblings, and together they waged war against the Titans.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.1.5 1.1.5&ndash;1.2.1].</ref> According to Apollodorus, in the tenth year of that war, Zeus learned from Gaia, that he would be victorious if he had the Hundred-Handers and the Cyclopes as allies. So Zeus slew their warder [[Campe]] (a detail not found in Hesiod) and released them, and in addition to giving Zeus his thunderbolt (as in Hesiod), the Cyclopes also gave [[Poseidon]] his [[trident]], and Hades a helmet (presumably the same [[cap of invisibility]] which Athena borrowed in the ''[[Iliad]]''), and "with these weapons the gods overcame the Titans".<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.2.1 1.2.1].</ref>

Apollodorus also mentions a tomb of Geraestus, "the Cyclops" at Athens upon which, in the time of king [[Aegeus]], the Athenians sacrificed the daughters of [[Hyacinthus the Lacedaemonian|Hyacinth]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.15.8 3.15.8].</ref>

===Nonnus===
''[[Dionysiaca]]'', composed in the 4th or 5th century BC, is the longest surviving poem from antiquity – 20,426 lines.  It is written by the poet [[Nonnus]] in the [[Homeric dialect]], and its main subject is the life of [[Dionysus]]. It describes a war that occurred between Dionysus' troops and those of the Indian king Deriades. In book 28 of the ''Dionysiaca'' the Cyclopes join with Dionysian troops, and they prove to be great warriors and crush most of the Indian king's troops.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca02nonnuoft#page/358/mode/2up 28.172&ndash;276].</ref>