Aetnaeus

Aetnaeus

Aetnaeus (Greek: polytonic|Αἰτναῖος) was an epithet given to several Greek and Roman gods and mythical beings connected with Mount Aetna, [Citation
last = Schmitz
first = Leonhard
author-link =
contribution = Aetnaeus
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 ] such as Zeus, of whom there was a statue on Mount Aetna, and to whom a festival was celebrated there, called Aetnaea, [Schol. "ad Pind. Ol." vi. 162] Hephaestus, who had his work­shop in the mountain, and a temple near it, [Aelian, "Hist. An." xi. 3] and the Cyclops. [Virgil, "Aeneid" viii. 440, xi. 263, iii. 768] [Ov. "Ex Pont." ii. 2.115]

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