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Cyclops is a satyr play by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, the only complete satyr play that has survived from ancient Greece . In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes are giant one eyed creatures . The play Cyclops by Euripides is a retelling and expansion upon the portion of the Odyssey in which Odysseus becomes trapped on the island of the Cyclops and must trick the beast so that he can save himself and his men . On the voyage home from the Trojan War, Odysseus and his crew have lost their way and make a stop at Mount Aetna in Sicily, which is inhabited by the race of primitive one eyed giants known as the Cyclops . They encounter the satyrs and their drunken father Silenus, who have been enslaved by one particular Cyclops . Three groups of Cyclops can be distinguished . In Hesiod\'s Theogony, they are the brothers Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who provided Zeus with his weapon the thunderbolt .