Cyclops

The Cyclopes were giants; one-eyed monsters; a savage race of lawless creatures possessing neither social manners nor fear of the gods. Cyclops means "round eye." Considered the children of Uranus and Gea, they were the workers of the God Hephaestus whose workshop was in the heart of the volcanic mountain Etna. According to Homer Odysseus where he probably introduced the Cyclopes, Polyphemus, the most famous Cyclopes were the sons of Poseidon, not Gaea. Homer described the Cyclopes as savage savages, who eschewed agriculture and other laws apart from each man. They were shepherds who lived in the southwestern part of Sicily, actively ate human beings and lived with their wives and children in caves that ruled over them with arbitrary power. The Homeric Cyclopes were not servants of Zeus, and in fact mostly ignored him.