\b0 The race of the Cyclopes, gigantic and savage beings with only one eye, was descended from \b \cf4 \ATXht12102 Ur
anus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and \b \cf4 \ATXht10700 Gaea\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . \b \cf4 \ATXht10332 Cronus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 had confined them in \b \cf4 \ATXht12003 Tartarus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , but during the war with the \b \cf4 \ATXht1001 Titans\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 th
ey were set free by Zeus, to whom they gave the thunderbolt. They worked as \b \cf4 \ATXht7 Hephaestus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht209 '\ATXht0 assistants in his forges located beneath volcanoes, but because of their strength they were said to have built the powerful
walls of \b \cf4 \ATXht11322 Mycenae\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and \b \cf4 \ATXht12013 Tiryns\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . One of them, \b \cf4 \ATXht404 Polyphemus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , was the protagonist of one of Ulysses' most celebrated adventures.