Cyclops - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
N 43° 37.934 W 079° 25.385
17T E 627207 N 4832235
One of the 20 statues at the Garden of the Greek Gods on the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) grounds in Toronto.
Waymark Code: WM7ZAJ
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 12/28/2009
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This Limestone statue is sculpted by Elford Bradley Cox in 1979
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The text from the plaque:
CYCLOPS
One of a race of giant one-eyed men who herded sheep for a living. They were finally done in by Hercules after a fierce struggle.
Cyclops
Giants with only one eye in their forhead, children of the earth, Gaea They ate humans, were thick and had given Zeus the thunder and lightning as a sign of gratitude when he released them from the underworld. They worked as Hephaestus helpers under the volcano Etna making Zeus's lightnings, but were killed by Apollo as a revenge for Zeus's killing his son Aclepius.
The most famous cyclop was Polyphemus who Odysseus blinded after making him drunk.
In general, Homer described the cyclops as wild savages who did not use agriculture or laws other than each man to himself. This can be seen as an allegory of the barbarians, the non-Greeks. Other named cyclops were Brontes, Steropes and Arges.
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