Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.201 Cyclopes

  One-eyed smith-giants who forge thunderbolts under Etna; a simile for the bees' teeming labour.

• The Aeneid §3.569 Cyclopes

  The Sicilian coast below Etna, home of the man-eating Cyclopes.

• The Aeneid §6.631 Cyclopes

  The giant smiths of Vulcan, in whose furnaces the gates of Dis were forged.

• The Aeneid §8.418 Cyclopes

  The Cyclopes, one-eyed giant smiths who labour at Vulcan's Aetnaean forge.

• The Aeneid §11.263 Cyclopes of Aetna

  The one-eyed giants of Sicily, encountered by Ulysses.