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Greek and Roman writers like Hesiod , describe the Cyclops as been a group or family of three brothers who were primordial members of the giants. Writers like Homer describe the Cyclopes as living on a distant island ruled by the cyclops Polyphemus who was one of the sons of Poseidon.
Callimachus
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The poet Callimachus states on one of his hymns that the Cyclopes helped Hephaestus at his forge. The Cyclopes were said to be responsible for the cyclopean fortifications at Tiryns and Mycenae in the Peloponnese. According to the hymn, the noises proceeding from the heart of volcanoes were attributed to the Cyclopes' activities.
Hesiod
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According to the tragedy titled Alcestis by Euripides, Apollo killed the Cyclopes, in retaliation for Asclepius ' murder at the hands of Zeus. After the murder, Apollo was forced into the servitude of King Admetus of Pherae for one year. Zeus later returned Asclepius and the Cyclopes from the Underworld .
Homer
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According to Homer's The Oddysey , the Cyclopes live on a remote island, island which was found by Odysseus and his crew after they escape the Trojan war . The Cyclops Polyphemus was encountered by Odysseus and his crew, and instead of helping them, he ate and killed various members of the crew and trapped the rest in his cave. When Polyphemus slept, Odysseus blinded him with a wood stick in retaliation of what he did.
Theocritus
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The Sicilian Greek poet Theocritus wrote two poems circa 275 BC concerning Polyphemus' desire for Galatea , a sea nymph. When Galatea instead married Acis, a Sicilian mortal, a jealous Polyphemus killed him with a boulder. Galatea turned Acis' blood into a river of the same name in Sicily.
Virgil
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The epic Roman poet Virgil , wrote, in book three of The Aeneid how Aeneas and his crew landed on the island of the cyclops after escaping from Troy at the end of the Trojan War. Aeneas and his crew land on the island, when they are approached by a desperate Greek man from Ithaca , Achaemenides, who was stranded on the island a few years previously with Odysseus' expedition (as depicted in The Odyssey by Homer). Virgil's accounts acts as a sequel to Homer's The Odyssey, with the fate of Polyphemus as a blind cyclops after the escape of Odysseus and his crew.
Philippine folklore
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The Cyclopes appear in the 2012 film Wrath of the Titans . When Perseus arrives at the Island of Kali (Island of Hephaestus), he confronts three Cyclopes (just like the ones described by Hesiod in his Theogony ). The Cyclopes guide Perseus to Hephaestus' forge. Hephaestus tells Perseus and his comrades, that the Cyclopes aided him in creating the god weapons: Zeus' thunderbolt, Poseidon's trident and Hades' pitchfork.
A cyclops appears in the disney film Hercules.  He is depicted as one of the Titans, and is sent by Hades to kill Hercules after he loses his strength. 
Video games
Two giant cyclopes with rock-like skin appear in Clash of the Titans: The Videogame .
Various classes of Cyclopes appear througout the God of War video game series.
In God of War: Chains of Olympus , during the Siege of Attica, Cyclopes were enslaved by the Persian King. The king used them to attack Attica, along with the Basilisk . The Cyclopes appear later in the game, Kratos fought many of them in Underworld .
In God of War (first game), the Cyclopes work as shock troops for Ares. Also some Cyclopes are seeing guarding Pandora's temple. This is the only game of the series in which Kratos can't rip the Cyclopes eye.
Cycloptic tiny four-legged creatures resembbling a Cyclops skull appear in the original Kid Icarus video game. In the game the creatures are called Ganewmede.
The Cyclops is one of the many creatures Orpheus must face in the side-scrolling video game The Battle of Olympus.
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Torunga Leela appears as a mutant cyclops in the television series "Futurama". At first, she was believed to be an alien until she was reunited with her parents, a pair of mutants that live beneath the streets of New New York in the 31st Century.
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