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Etna, subtitled A History of the Mountain and of Its Eruptions, is by G. F. Rodwell. The preface says that while preparing an account of Mount Etna for the Encyclopædia Britannica, the writer was surprised to find that there exists no single work in the English language devoted to the history of the most famous volcano in the world. The preface also says the facts recorded have been collected from various sources, German, French, Italian, and English, and from the writer's own observations made during the summer of 1877.
The book says Etna is also often spoken of distinctively as Il Monte, the mountain par excellence. Etna is frequently alluded to by classical writers, and by the poets it was sometimes feigned to be the prison of the giant Enceladus or Typhon, sometimes the forge of Hephaistos, and the abode of the Cyclops. The text names Pindar (b.c. 522-442) as the first writer of antiquity who has described Etna.
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- G. F. Rodwell
- Pages
- 54
- Language
- English
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