He has the thunderbolt makers: "Brontes and Steropes and bare-limbed Pyracmon", work in vast caverns extending underground from Mount Etna to the island of Vulcano, while the Cyclops brethren of Polyphemus live on Sicily where "near at hand Aetna thunders".

What is the Cyclops profession?

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.

What did the Cyclops make?

It was the Cyclopes who crafted the thunderbolts used to deadly effect by Zeus throughout Greek mythology. The Cyclopes also manufactured the Hades' helmet of darkness that made the wearer invisible, and also Poseidon's trident that could cause earthquakes.