Euripides locates Odysseus' Cyclopes on the island of Sicily, near the volcano Mount Etna,Euripides, Cyclops 114. and in the same play addresses Hephaestus as "lord of Aetna".Euripides, Cyclops 599. The poet Callimachus locates the Cyclopes' forge on the island of Lipari, the largest of the Aeolians.Callimachus, Hymn III to Artemis 8-10. Compare with the third-century BC Sicilian poet Theocritus, 2.133–134, which locates Hephaestus' forge on Lipari, and 11.7–8, which calls the Cyclops Polyphemus his "countryman". Virgil associates both the Hesiodic and the Homeric Cyclopes with Sicily. 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,Virgil, Aeneid 8.416–422. Compare with Ovid, Fasti 4.287–288, 4.473, which also has the Hesiodic thunderbolt makers work in Sicilian caves. while the Cyclops brethren of Polyphemus live on Sicily where "near at hand Aetna thunders".Virgil, Aeneid 3.554–571.
Euripides locates Odysseus' Cyclopes on the island of Sicily, near the volcano Mount Etna,Euripides, Cyclops 114. and in the same play addresses Hephaestus as "lord of Aetna".Euripides, Cyclops 599. The poet Callimachus locates the Cyclopes' forge on the island of Lipari, the largest of the Aeolians.Callimachus Hymn III to Artemis 8-10. Compare with the third-century BC Sicilian poet Theocritus, 2.133–134, which locates Hephaestus' forge on Lipari, and 11.7–8, which calls the Cyclops Polyphemus his "countryman". Virgil associates both the Hesiodic and the Homeric Cyclopes with Sicily. He has the thunderbolt makers: "Brontes and Steropes and bare-limbed Pyracmon", work in vast caverns extending underground from Mount Etna to the isla,nd of Vulcano,Virgil, Aeneid 8.416–422. Compare with Ovid, Fasti 4.287–288, 4.473, which also has the Hesiodic thunderbolt makers work in Sicilian caves. while the Cyclops brethren of Polyphemus live on Sicily where "near at hand Aetna thunders".Virgil, Aeneid 3.554–571.