They supposedly built the mortarless fortifications of Mycenae and Tiryns, and their other creations include the invisibility-granting helmet of Hades.
When Aeneas's crew visited a location formerly inhabited by one of these creatures, they picked up the marooned sailor Achaemenides. Euripides's play Alcestis describes how Apollo was forced to serve Admetus for a year after killing these figures in retaliation for Zeus's killing of Asclepius. They supposedly built the mortarless fortifications of Mycenae and Tiryns, and their other creations include the invisibility-granting helmet of Hades. After Campe was slain, they were released from Tartarus along with their brothers the Hecatoncheires. The most famous individual one, a son of Thoosa, of them crushed Acis with a rock out of love for Galatea and was fooled by a warrior claiming that he was named "No man". For 10 points, Brontes, Steropes, Arges, and Polyphemus are all examples of which race of mythical one-eyed giants?
When Aeneas's crew visited a location formerly inhabited by one of these creatures, they picked up the marooned sailor Achaemenides.
cyclops [or Cyclopes]