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Etna
also: Aetna
The volcano of Sicily whose fiery eruptions Oedipus offers to swallow at Antigone’s bidding.
Reading notes
- Natural Questions §2.30.1 Etna
The great volcano of Sicily; its eruption of burning sand is Seneca's example of thunder and lightning produced without clouds, by dry bodies meeting.
- The Phoenician Women §307 Sicilian mountain
Etna, the volcano of Sicily, whose fire Oedipus offers to swallow.
- Thyestes §546 burning Etna
The volcano of Sicily, home of the Cyclopes and their fires.