Ancient mythographers identified three different groups of Cyclopes: the Hesiodic, the Homeric and the wall-builders. Hesiod’s Cyclopes were sons of the ancient gods and first couple Uranus and Gaia, and forged the iconic thunderbolt weapon of Zeus. Homer's Cyclopes were a group of shepherds encountered by Odysseus, who blinded Polyphemus’s one eye in order to escape from him. Hellanicus’s Cyclopes were said to be the builders of the walls of Mycenae and Tiryns. But were there more? Our man Pliny the Elder wrote that the Cyclopes were also the inventors of masonry towers and the first to work with iron and bronze. And where do the Orange Cyclopes fit in?
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