place
Etna
also: Aetna
The Sicilian volcano under which the giant Typhoeus was pinned; emblem of Sappho's burning.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §3.24 Etna's thunderbolt
Sicilian Mt. Etna; love-tokens kept by a treacherous man strike like its fire.
- The Heroides §15 Etna
The Sicilian volcano; Phaon's new haunt, and a figure for Sappho's burning love.
- Metamorphoses §13.421 Sicilian Etna
The Sicilian volcano, near the Cyclops's haunts.
- The Cure for Love §15 Etna
The volcano of Sicily, proverbial for inextinguishable inner fire.