Aetna
place · 9 works · 10 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Catana · Sicilian hills · high crest of Aetna · newly-founded Aetna · shadow of Aetna · snow-covered Aetna · the city of Aetna · the mountain
in the texts
Olympian
The mountain beneath which Zeus holds down Typhon, invoked in the address to Zeus opening the Psaumis ode.
Son of Cronus, you who hold Aetna, the wind-swept weight on terrible hundred-headed Typhon, receive, for the sake of the Graces, this Olympic victory-procession, this most enduring light of widely powerful excellence.
and all their victories in Argos and in Thebes, and all that shall be witnessed by the royal Lycaean altar that rules over the Arcadians, and by Pellana, and Sicyon, and Megara, the beautifully enclosed precinct of the Aeacidae, and Eleusis and splendid Marathon, and the wealthy and beautiful cities beneath the high crest of Aetna, and Euboea—you may search through all Greece, and you will find th …
Birds
The Sicilian town of Aetna, mistakenly invoked by the opportunistic Poet in verses originally composed for a different city's founding, exposing his flattery as recycled and insincere.
thou noble founder of the town of Aetna thou, whose name recalls the holy sacrifices, make us such gift as thy generous heart shall suggest.
The Trojan Women
Volcanic mountain in Sicily, named by the chorus as the legendary home of Hephaestus and a possible land of exile.
They tell me too Hephaestus’ home, beneath the shadow of Aetna, fronting Phoenicia, the mother of Sicilian hills, is famous for the crowns it gives to valor.
De Rerum Natura
Mount Aetna, the active volcano in Sicily, described as threatening to gather new furies and vomit fires in the geographical ekphrasis of Empedocles's homeland.
and here Aetna rumbles threats
To gather anew such furies of its flames
As with its force anew to vomit fires,
Nemean
The newly-founded city ruled by Chromius's patrons, for whose citizens the poet prays and to which the victory procession travels.
and I pray to you, grant to the children of the Aetnaeans the long-lived blessing of good laws, father Zeus, and join the people with splendid celebrations in their city.
Muses, we will go in victory procession from Apollo’s shrine in Sicyon to newly-founded Aetna, where the doors flung open wide are overwhelmed by guests, at the prosperous home of Chromius.
Pythian
Both the volcanic mountain in Sicily that imprisons Typhon and the city Hieron founded and named after it.
Come, let us devise a friendly song for the king of Aetna, for whom Hieron founded that city with god-built freedom, in accordance with the laws of the rule of Hyllus.
And the pillar of the sky holds him down, snow-covered Aetna, year-round nurse of bitter frost, from whose inmost caves belch forth the purest streams of unapproachable fire.
Grant that we may be pleasing to you, Zeus, you who frequent this mountain, this brow of the fruitful earth, whose namesake city near at hand was glorified by its renowned founder, when the herald at the Pythian racecourse proclaimed the name of Aetna, announcing Hieron’s triumph with the chariot.
Ichneutae
Aetna is mentioned as the place associated with horned beetles in the chorus's guesses about the tortoise.
Is it like one of the horned beetles that live on Aetna?
Apologeticum
The volcano near Catana into which Empedocles is said to have thrown himself.
Empedocles gave his whole self to the fires of Aetna at Catana:
De Anima
Volcano into which Empedocles reportedly leapt to his death.
Plainly, as a fish, that he might not rot in some more decent burial, he chose rather to be roasted by hurling himself into Aetna.