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After these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes, to
wit, Arges, Steropes, Brontes,1 of
whom each had one eye on his forehead. 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.2
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1 Compare Hes. Th. 139ff.
2 Compare Hes. Th. 617ff. and for the description of Tartarus, Hes. Th. 717ff. According to Hesiod, a brazen anvil would take nine days and nights to fall from heaven to earth, and nine days and nights to fall from earth to Tartarus.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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