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Aetna
The Sicilian volcano, its furnaces a figure for the madness Juno kindles; a buried giant strains beneath the Dorian land.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §3.37.1 Etna
The great volcano of eastern Sicily, whose eruption frames the legend of the pious Catanaean brothers.
- On Benefits §6.36.1 Aetna
The volcano of eastern Sicily, whose eruption the Catanaean brothers braved to save their parents.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §5.51.1 Etna
The great volcano of Sicily; Seneca uses Lucilius's nearness to it (Lucilius was procurator in Sicily) as a foil to his own modest stay at Baiae.
- Hercules (Mad) §80 the Sicilian peak
Mount Aetna in Sicily, beneath which a defeated giant is pinned; its volcanic furnaces become the image of Hercules's kindled madness.
- Hercules (Mad) §107 the furnaces of Aetna
Mount Aetna's volcanic fires, the measure of the madness Juno wills into Hercules's breast.
- Hercules on Oeta §280 burning Etna
Mount Etna in Sicily, the volcano under which a Giant was said to lie; its fire is Deianira's image for her wrath.
- Medea §407 Aetna
The Sicilian volcano, imagined pressing down on a buried giant ('the gasping Titan').
- Phaedra §99 Aetnaean
Of Mount Etna in Sicily, whose volcanic vapor is the image for Phaedra's inner fire.