Polyphemus/Cyclops

By: Travis Volk

Period 6
 Over Of Character
Leader of all cyclops.
All Cyclops have only one eye which is
in the middle of there head. They were
strong, stubborn,.
Brontes, Steropes, and Arges were born
Gaea and Uranus.
Tartarus is where Cronus prisoned the
Cyclops.
Zeus released the Cyclops and then fought
with them against the Titans.
This was when Zeus recieved his lighting
bolts because the cyclops gave them to hihim
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him as a gift for releasing them from
Tartarus.
http://www.classicsunveiled.com/mythnet/html/creature.html#Cyclopes

Cyclopes came from two greek words

meaning circle and eye.
Created Poseidon’s trident, Artemis’s bows
and arrows of moonlight.
In the story Alcestis, Apollo killed the
Cyclops.
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Cyclops
 Family Tree
Gaia Uranus
The Earth The Sky

Cronus Rhea

Poseidon Amphitrite

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_th
e_Greek_gods
.......my knowledge Polyphemus
 Works Cited
•Tsang, Jason and Sumair Mirza. MythNet. Neil Jenkins 1997. Web. 2 May 2010.
http:/www.classicsunveiled.com/mythnet/html/creature.html#Cyclopes

• N.p. wikipedia.com, n.d. wikimedia foundation, Inc. Web . 2 May 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_the_Greek_gods

• Evslin, Bernara. Heros, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths. New York: Laurel
Leaf Books, 1966. print.

• Evans, Bergen. Dictionary of Mythology. New York: Random House, 1970. Print.