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Cyclops
n.
one-eyed giant (Greek Mythology)
Cyclop
n.
one-eyed giant (Greek Mythology)
Cyclops
A
cyclops ( ; ; plural
cyclopes ; ), in
Greek mythology and later
Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of
giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The name literally means "round-eyed" or "circle-eyed".
Cyclops
Noun
1. (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
(hypernym) giant
(classification) Greek mythology
cyclops
Noun
1. minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
(synonym) water flea
(hypernym) copepod, copepod crustacean
(member-holonym) genus Cyclops
Cyclops
(n. sing. & pl.)
One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
(n. sing. & pl.)
A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
(n. sing. & pl.)
A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Cyclops
Cyclops Kyklops (Greek) [from
kyklos circle, round +
ops eye] Plural cyclopes. Round-eyed giants; Homer locates them in Sicily as a lawless race of giants with one central eye, devouring men and caring naught for Zeus; their chief is Polyphemus. For Hesiod, they are three sons of Heaven and Earth, named Arges, Brontes, and Steropes, titan of flame, thunder, and lightning respectively. Later they were considered assistants of Hephaestus in his workshops under volcanoes and their number was no longer confined to three.
The history of human evolution has passed down to us transfigured by the progressive accretion of myths, so that the name cyclopes was handed down to various owners until it meant merely giants who built vast walls. Hesiod's original three were the last three subraces of the Lemurians, the one eye was the wisdom eye, the other eyes not being
fully developed as physical organs until the beginning of the fourth root-race. Odysseus, a fourth-race hero, though he destroys a barbarous race in the interests of culture, nevertheless puts out the third eye. It is an allegory of the passage from a simpler Cyclopean civilization of huge stone buildings to the more sensual civilization of the Atlanteans (SD 2:769). Disciples of the initiates of the fourth root-race were said to hand over divine knowledge to their cyclopes, sons of cycles or of the infinite (SD 1:208), while the cyclopes supposed to have built walls were masons in the sense of initiators (SD 2:345).
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