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Uranus feared their strength and locked them in Tartarus. They fashioned lightning bolts for Zeus to use as a weapon and helped him overthrow Cronus and the other Titans. The thunderbolts which became Zeus' signature weapon were forged by all three Cyclopes: Arges added brightness, Brontes added thunder, and Steropes added lightning.
These Cyclopes also created Poseidon 's trident , Artemis ' bow and arrow, and the helmet that Hades gave to Perseus on his quest to kill Medusa. They were Hephaestus ' helpers and are said to have built the fortifications at Tiryns and Mycenae in the Peloponnese.
The noises proceeding from the heart of volcanoes were attributed to their operations. It is later said that the Cyclopes were killed by Apollo after Zeus killed his son, Asclepius , with a thunderbolt, forged by the Cyclopes.
In Homer 's Odyssey , a scouting party led by the Trojan War hero Odysseus lands on the Island of the Cyclopes and ventures upon a large cave. They enter into the cave and proceed to feast on some food they find there.
Unknown to them, this cave is the home of Polyphemus who soon comes upon the trespassers and traps them in his cave. He proceeds to eat several crew members, but Odysseus devised a cunning plan for escape.
To make Polyphemus unwary, Odysseus gave him a barrel of very strong, unwatered wine. When Polyphemus asked for Odysseus' name, he told him that it was 'Outis', Greek for 'no man' or 'no one'.
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