Aetnaeus

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Aetnaeus (Gr. Αιτναιος) was an epithet given to several Greek and Roman gods and mythical beings connected with Mount Aetna,[1] such as Zeus, of whom there was a statue on Mount Aetna, and to whom a festival was celebrated there, called Aetnaea,[2] Hephaestus, who had his work­shop in the mountain, and a temple near it,[3] and the Cyclops.[4][5]

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  1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1870), “Aetnaeus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 54 
  2. ^ Schol. ad Pind. Ol. vi. 162
  3. ^ Aelian, Hist. An. xi. 3
  4. ^ Virgil, Aeneid viii. 440, xi. 263, iii. 768
  5. ^ Ov. Ex Pont. ii. 2.115

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).