0318NOTCyclops

0318NOTCyclops_Groening

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ClCv241

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MythMatters

Hom. Od. 9.104-115
Hes. Theog. 139-46

Matt Groening, creator. (Character Turanga Leela featured in) Futurama" TV Series. Curiosity Company: 2013.

Turanga Leela is the cyclopic starship captain of the Planet Express Delivery Ship. In the early years of the show, Leela believes herself to be an orphan andthe last living member of a race of alien cyclopes.

After much foreshadowing, it is eventually revealed that Leela is neither an orphan nor an alien. Her parents are revealed to be mutants who dwell in the sewers of New New York and who left her at an orphanarium in the hopes that she might get a normal, non-sewery life.

Slide by CB

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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