The Cyclops were giants with only one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead.

The play is an avowed and solitary attempt to revive the 'satyric' drama of the Greeks, a kind of which the Cyclops of Euripides is the only extant example.

VULCAN, the Roman god of fire and an artificer In metals, identified with the Greek HEPHÆSTUS (q. v.); had a temple to his honour in early Rome; was fabled to have had a forge under Mount Etna, where he manufactured thunderbolts for Jupiter, the Cyclops being his workmen.