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Aetna (Ancient Greek: Αἴτνη, Aítnē), was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated at the foot of the mountain of the same name, on its southern declivity.[1]

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  1. 33 relations: Ancient Greek, Antonine Itinerary, Campania, Carthage, Catania, Centuripe, Cicero, Classical Athens, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius I of Syracuse, Gaius Verres, Hiero I of Syracuse, Hybla Gereatis, In Verrem, Konrad Mannert, Laches (general), Magna Graecia, Mount Etna, Nicolosi, Oikistes, Paternò, Philipp Clüver, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, Sicels, Sicilian Expedition, Sicily, Stephanus of Byzantium, Strabo, Syracuse, Sicily, Thucydides, Timoleon, Zeus.

  2. Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Italy
  3. Mount Etna

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Antonine Itinerary

The Antonine Itinerary (Itinerarium Antonini Augusti, "Itinerary of the Emperor Antoninus") is an itinerarium, a register of the stations and distances along various roads.

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Campania

Campania is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri.

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Carthage

Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.

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Catania

Catania (Sicilian and) is the second-largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Aetna (city) and Catania are ancient Greek archaeological sites in Italy, ancient cities in Sicily and Archaeological sites in Sicily.

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Centuripe

Centuripe (Latin: Centuripae; Sicilian: Centorbi) is a town and comune in the province of Enna (Sicily, southern Italy). Aetna (city) and Centuripe are Archaeological sites in Sicily.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Classical Athens

The city of Athens (Ἀθῆναι, Athênai a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina) during the classical period of ancient Greece (480–323 BC) was the major urban centre of the notable polis (city-state) of the same name, located in Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League.

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Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian.

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Dionysius I of Syracuse

Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder (432 – 367 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily.

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Gaius Verres

Gaius Verres (114 – 43 BC) was a Roman magistrate, notorious for his misgovernment of Sicily.

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Hiero I of Syracuse

Hieron I (Ἱέρων Α΄; usually Latinized Hiero) was the son of Deinomenes, the brother of Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily, from 478 to 467 BC.

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Hybla Gereatis

Hybla Gereatis (Greek: Ὕβλα ἡ Γελεᾶτις), was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, located on the southern slope of Mount Etna, not far from the river Symaethus, in the modern comune of Paternò. Aetna (city) and Hybla Gereatis are ancient Greek archaeological sites in Italy, ancient cities in Sicily and former populated places in Italy.

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In Verrem

"In Verrem" ("Against Verres") is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres, the former governor of Sicily.

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Konrad Mannert

Konrad Mannert (April 17, 1756 – September 27, 1834) was a Prussian historian and geographer.

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Laches (general)

Laches (Lachēs Melanōpou Aixōneus; 475 – 418 BCE) was an Athenian aristocrat (son of Melanopos) and general during the Peloponnesian War.

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Magna Graecia

Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.

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Mount Etna

Mount Etna, or simply Etna (Etna or Mongibello; Muncibbeḍḍu or 'a Muntagna; Aetna; Αἴτνα and Αἴτνη), is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania.

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Nicolosi

Nicolosi (Niculùsi) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about northwest of Catania.

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Oikistes

The oikistes (οἰκιστής), often anglicized as oekist or oecist, was the individual chosen by an ancient Greek polis as the leader of any new colonization effort.

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Paternò

Paternò (Patennò) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania, in the Italian region of Sicily.

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Philipp Clüver

Philipp Clüver (also Klüwer, Cluwer, or Cluvier, Latinized as Philippus Cluverius and Philippi Cluverii) (1580 – 31 December 1622) was an Early Modern German geographer and historian.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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Sicels

The Sicels (Sicelī or Siculī) were an Indo-European tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily, their namesake, during the Iron Age.

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Sicilian Expedition

The Sicilian Expedition was an Athenian military expedition to Sicily, which took place from 415–413 BC during the Peloponnesian War between Athens on one side and Sparta, Syracuse and Corinth on the other.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Stephanus of Byzantium

Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (Stephanus Byzantinus; Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, Stéphanos Byzántios; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica (Ἐθνικά).

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.

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Syracuse, Sicily

Syracuse (Siracusa; Sarausa) is a historic city on the Italian island of Sicily, the capital of the Italian province of Syracuse. Aetna (city) and Syracuse, Sicily are Archaeological sites in Sicily.

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Thucydides

Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης||; BC) was an Athenian historian and general.

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Timoleon

Timoleon (Greek: Τιμολέων), son of Timodemus, of Corinth (–337 BC) was a Greek statesman and general.

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Zeus

Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.

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See also

Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Italy

Mount Etna

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetna_(city)

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