Greek mythology is full of artifacts endowed with supernatural powers, in addition to a myriad of unforgettable gods, ...

Fossils of prehistoric elephants may have inspired the Greek myth of giant, one-eyed, man-eating creatures, known as cyclopes. In the Odyssey, the ancient Greek poet Homer recounts the hero Odysseus’s ...

The most famous cyclops, the cannibalistic shepherd of the ancient Greek Homeric myth, isn't the only one. He's one of many that turn up not just in Greek mythology, but in other cultures ...

These myths go back far: Herodotus, a Greek historian who lived between 484 and 425 B.C., wrote that the giant bones of the mythical giant Pallas and the hero Orestes (who was said to be 10 feet ...

In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus pushed a boulder up a hill, ... The cyclops Polyphemus, a single eye in his forehead, devoured companions of Odysseus, who blinded him; ...

The cyclops has been a staple of the human imagination, from Polyphemus's appearance in The Odyssey nearly three millennia ago to a 2014 episode of Ancient Aliens.But there is also a medical ...