Cyclops

A Cyclops is a giant, one-eyed creature. Hercules fought and then befriended a Cylcops who was being used to guard Hera's Sacred Vineyard (HTLJ "Eye of the Beholder"). Xena blinded another Cyclops years before her reformation. (XWP: "Sins of the Past") They were only mentioned once on Young Hercules. Hercules: Okay. You two ever heard of Bacchus? Iolaus: Bacchus... Oh, yeah. He's a cyclops, works for Ares. Hercules: No, not even close. - 1.19 - The Lure of the Lyre

List of Cyclopes[]

Other Cyclopes[]

Polyphemus, a Cyclops who was the son of Poseidon and was blinded by Ulysses.
A Cyclops was attacking Keremus during the Battle for Mount Olympus. (Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus)

Trivia[]

Cyclops are about five meters tall.

Only in comic books has a seen a female cyclop.

In myths, the mother of a cyclops is usually a nymph. Hesiod described three one-eyed Cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes and Arges the sons of Uranus and Gaia, brothers of the Titans, builders and craftsmen, while the epic poet Homer described another group of mortal herdsmen Cyclopes. Homer does not tell if they are one-eyed, this is assumed when Odysseus spins a beam in Polyphemus' eye. Other accounts were written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil. In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus releases three Cyclopes from the dark pit of Tartarus. They provide Zeus' thunderbolt, Hadess' Helmet of Hades invisibility, and Poseidon's trident, and the gods use these weapons to defeat the Titans. In a famous episode of Homer's Odyssey, the hero Odysseus encounters the cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon and Thoosa (a nereid), who lives with his fellow Cyclopes in a distant country. The connection between the two groups has been debated in antiquity and by modern scholars. It is upon Homer's account that Euripides and Virgil based their accounts of the mythical creatures. -