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Cyclops

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Total Pages: 1.71
Total Words: 427
Total Characters: 2150
Number of Sentences: 40

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Flesch Reading Ease: 69.99
Fog Scale Level: 8.3
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Cyclops

An Unusual People
     The Cyclopes were unique and unusual mythical people.  They had very interesting lives.  They had an unusual beginning and they had an unusual lifestyle.  Also, the Cyclopes appeared to be completely different when described by opposing viewpoints.  Overalll, the Cyclopes were an unconventional  race in mythical legends.
     The Cyclopes had an intriguing origin.  They were the eldest sons of Mother Earth, Gaia, and Father Heaven, Uranus (Evslin 1).  While the Cyclopes were still in the womb of Gaia, Uranus got jealous of the babies.  He sent a bat to eat one eye out of each baby to make them hideous and thus make everybody hate them (Evslin).  Because of what Uranus executed, the baby Cyclopes were born with one eye.  They grew to be of gigantic size (Hamilton 65).  This beginning of the era of the Cyclopes proved to be a unique situation.
     Although the Cyclopes were born disfigured they led attracting lives.  The Cyclopes had a brother named Cronos who killed his father Uranus (Evslin 13).  Since everyone was afraid of the Cyclopes (2), Cronos punished  them by tricking them into imprisonment.  Zeus, the son of Cronos and the new god king, freed them after Cronos had imprisoned them (31).  The Cyclopes were very good smiths (12).  They forged thunderbolts for Zeus because he freed them (S...

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