Steropes

Family: Cyclopes · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.1

Life events

• Sky bound and cast the Hundred-handed and Cyclopes into Tartarus.(Apollodorus, Library 1.1 · 📍 Tartarus)
  • With: Sky Briareos Gyes Cottus Arges Brontes
  • “But them Sky bound and cast into Tartarus, a gloomy place in Hades as far distant from earth as earth is distant from the sky.”
• Cronus brought the imprisoned brethren out of Tartarus and assumed sovereignty.(Apollodorus, Library 1.1 · 📍 Tartarus)
  • With: Cronus Briareos Gyes Cottus Arges Brontes
  • “And, having dethroned their father, they brought up their brethren who had been hurled down to Tartarus, and committed the sovereignty to Cronus.”
• Cronus rebound the rescued brethren in Tartarus and wedded his sister Rhea.(Apollodorus, Library 1.1 · 📍 Tartarus)
  • With: Cronus Briareos Gyes Cottus Arges Brontes Rhea
  • “But he again bound and shut them up in Tartarus, and wedded his sister Rhea;”
• Earth bore the Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who possessed immense strength and craftsmanship.(Hesiod, Theogony 139-265)
  • With: Earth Heaven Brontes Arges
  • “nd again, she bare the Cyclopes, overbearing in spirit, Brontes, and Steropes and stubborn-hearted Arges 1606, who gave Zeus the thunder and made the thunderbolt: in all else they were like the gods, but one eye only was set in the midst of their fore-heads. And they were surnamed Cyclopes (Orb-eyed) because one orbed eye was set in their foreheads. Strength and might and craft were in their works.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.1

• parent: Earth “After these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes, to wit, Arges , Steropes, Brontes, of whom each had one eye on his forehead.”
• parent: Sky “After these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes, to wit, Arges , Steropes, Brontes, of whom each had one eye on his forehead.”
• with Cronus (Cronus and the Titans released Steropes from Tartarus.) “And, having dethroned their father, they brought up their brethren who had been hurled down to Tartarus, and committed the sovereignty to Cronus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.