Cyclops

Cyclops , plural Cyclopes , in Greek mythology, immense one-eyed beings. They appear in at least two distinct traditions. According to Hesiod the Cyclopes were smiths, the sons of Uranus and Gaea. They were imprisoned in Tartarus by their father and again by their brother Kronos. In return for their freedom they gave Zeus the thunderbolt that aided him in overthrowing Kronos. In Homer the Cyclopes are a lawless, barbarous, and pastoral people, one of whom ( Polyphemus ) Odysseus encounters in his wanderings.

Cyclops a member of a race of savage one-eyed giants, said to have been the builders of the walls of Mycenae. In the Odyssey, Odysseus escaped death by blinding the one-eyed Polyphemus. The name comes via Latin from Greek Kuklōps, literally ‘round-eyed’, from kuklos ‘circle’ + ōps ‘eye’.

The term cyclopean is used to denote a type of ancient masonry made with massive irregular blocks, by association with the great size of the Cyclops.