Aetna

Reading notes

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.10 Aetnaean flame

  Mount Etna in Sicily, whose flames the poets ascribe to a giant pinned beneath it; a sight Ovid recalls from his travels.

• The Festivals §4.12 Aetna

  The Sicilian volcano, lying over the buried giant Typhoeus; Ceres lights her torch at its fires.

• The Festivals §11 Aetna

  The Sicilian volcano, its fire likened to Cacus's.

• Metamorphoses §4.91 Aetnaean prison

  Mount Etna in Sicily, in whose caverns Aeolus shuts up the winds.

• Metamorphoses §8.202 Aetna

  Etna in Sicily, standing for the island where Daedalus took refuge.

• Metamorphoses §15.487 Aetna, which burns

  The Sicilian volcano, which Pythagoras says will not burn forever.