Gods
The subject of the Cyclopes’ relationships with the gods—and the possible status of the Cyclopes themselves as gods—all this constitutes a nest of paradoxes. Here, above all, one has to investigate the matter text by text, context by context, in order to make the appropriate distinctions. Hesiod’s Cyclopes are different from Homer’s, and Euripides’ Cyclopes are different again—not to mention the fascinatingly idiosyncratic portrayal in Nonnus. Among the questions addressed in this chapter are the Cyclopes’ (im)mortality; their genealogy; their combined distance from the gods and their dependence on them, or support for them; and their partial likeness to satyrs.
1966 ◽
Vol 25
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pp. 363-371
1966 ◽
Vol 27
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pp. 159-161
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1973 ◽
Vol 31
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pp. 122-123
1970 ◽
Vol 28
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pp. 26-27
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1969 ◽
Vol 27
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pp. 152-153
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1973 ◽
Vol 31
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pp. 380-381
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1971 ◽
Vol 29
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pp. 346-347
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