The Cyclops of Kephallonia (died 431 BC) was a Greek bandit leader on the island of Cephalonia during the 5th century BC.
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The "Cyclops" of Kephallonia was so-called because he lost his left eye in a fight, and he occasionally replaced it with a valuable obsidian replica. He detested being called "Cyclops" due to its implications of hideousness, and he was a violent criminal whose bandit gang controlled Cephalonia's crime for years. In 431 BC, he loaned Markos of Kephallonia a large amount of money, so that Markos could buy himself a vineyard, but Markos was unable to pay him back, so the Cyclops sent men to harass Markos' associate Kassandra, a mercenary. She defeated his henchmen Iraklis Mangas and Yiorgos Contos when they were sent to her hovel, and she later slew several ambushing bandits on the road to Mount Ainos and killed Cyclops' bounty hunter Talos the Stone Fist. Later, she partnered with Markos in stealing the Cyclops' eye from the heavily-guarded "Cyclops' Lair" while the Cyclops was away from Cephalonia, and, when the Cyclops returned, he intended to kill Markos, Kassandra, and Markos' young associate Phiobe. However, he was angered when his captain Barnabas spoke of a "one-eyed monster" (believing it to be himself) while telling a tale, and the Cyclops attempted to drown him in a clay pot. He was distracted when Kassandra arrived, offering the Cyclops his eye back before sticking it in a goat's anus. The angered Cyclops and his men attacked Kassandra, but Kassandra killed all of them, and she then freed the captive Barnabas. They took over the Cyclops' ship, the Adrestia, and they left Cephalonia.
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