Aetna (nymph)

Aetna (nymph)

Aetna (Greek: polytonic|Αἴτνη) was in Greek and Roman mythology a Sicilian nymph, [Citation
last = Schmitz
first = Leonhard
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contribution = Aetna
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 54
publisher =
place = Boston
year = 1870
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0063.html ] and accord­ing to Alcimus, [Alcimus, "ap. Schol. Theocrit." i. 65.] a daugh­ter of Uranus and Gaea, or of Briareus. Simonides said that she had acted as arbitrator between Hephaestus and Demeter respecting the possession of Sicily. By Zeus or Hephaestus she became the mother of the Palici. [Servius. "ad Aen.", ix. 584.] Mount Aetna in Sicily was believed to have derived its name from her, and under it Zeus buried Typhon, Enceladus, or Briareus. The mountain itself was believed to be the place in which He­phaestus and the Cyclops made the thunderbolts for Zeus. [Euripides. "Cyclops", 296.] [Propertius, iii. 15. 21.] [Cicero. "De Divinatione", ii. 19.]

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