Mount Aetna
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Aetna · Aetna's Mount · Aetna's fire-streaming rock · Aetna's fires · mount Aetna · the mountain · the rock of Aetna
in the texts
Cyclops
The volcano in Sicily that serves as the setting of the play, location of the Cyclops's cave
This is mount Aetna, the highest point in Sicily.
— Mount Aetna in Sicily, before the cave of the Cyclops.
O Hephaestus, lord of Aetna, rid thyself for once and all of a troublesome neighbour by burning his bright eye out.
De Rerum Natura
The volcano in Sicily whose eruptions Lucretius explains through natural causation.
And now the cause
And held dominion in Sicilian fields:
And filled their bosoms with dread anxiety
Letters to Lucilius
The volcano in Sicily, discussed both as a natural phenomenon and as a traditional poetic subject.
Either I do not know you, or Aetna sets your mouth watering.
What shall I give you not to describe Aetna in your poem, not to touch this set theme handled by every poet?
But let us reserve these matters to inquire into then, when you have written to me how far the snows lie from the very mouth of the mountain, snows which not even summer melts;