Inspired by the Krazy Kat cartoons, Guston created a sharply politicised and deeply personal world peopled by goofy hooded Ku Klux Klansmen and hairy Cyclops balls (a stand-in for the artist).
Ordinary members were known as ghouls.Byrd had plenty of other titles in the rest of his career, including Senate minority leader, Senate majority leader and president pro tempore of the United States Senate, but none had quite the resonance of Exalted Cyclops.
These included Yelena Shvarts, whose last major work, Krylatyi tsiklops ("The Winged Cyclops," a biography of the Italian writer and political leader Gabriele D'Annunzio) was published shortly before she died; and Aleksandr Mironov, who like Shvarts was a major poet of the Russian underground of the 1970s and '80s.
Water fleas (genus Cyclops), microscopic freshwater species of the order Cyclopoida, can transmit the guinea worm to humans.
But his reputation was established in a series of challenge matches against the leading strongmen of the 1880s, including Charles Sampson, Frank ("Cyclops") Bienkowski, and Henry ("Hercules") McCann.
Cyclops, ( Greek: "Round Eye") in Greek legend and literature, any of several one-eyed giants to whom were ascribed a variety of histories and deeds.
In Homer the Cyclopes were cannibals, living a rude pastoral life in a distant land (traditionally Sicily), and the Odyssey contains a well-known episode in which Odysseus escapes death by blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus.
The Greeks created legends about the volcano, saying that it was the workshop of Hephaestus and the Cyclops or that underneath it the giant Typhon lay, making the Earth tremble when he turned.
Homer records the punning use by Odysseus of No-man (Greek Outis) as his name when he was about to attack Cyclops, who then roared out "No-man is killing me!" and so failed to attract any help (Odyssey 9 366 408).
In Homer's Odyssey, Polyphemus the Cyclops made sheep's milk cheese, probably a forerunner of feta, which he ripened on racks in his cave.
In the case of the broad tapeworm, for example, humans serve as the final (or definitive) hosts, various species of fish as one intermediate host, and species of a small water crustacean (Cyclops) as another intermediate host.
