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Euripides locates Odysseus' Cyclopes on the island of Sicily, near the volcano Mount Etna, [110] and in the same play addresses Hephaestus as "lord of Aetna". [111] The poet Callimachus locates the Cyclopes' forge on the island of Lipari, the largest of the Aeolians. [112] Virgil associates both the Hesiodic and the Homeric Cyclopes with Sicily.
Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes. [ 1] Hephaestus's Roman counterpart is Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was either the son of Zeus and Hera or he was Hera's parthenogenous child.
Laistrygon. Home to a tribe of giant cannibals that Odysseus encountered on his way back home from the Trojan War . Meropis. A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato 's Atlantis . Mount Olympus. "Olympos" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods of the ancient Greek world.
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology and stemming from Proto-Germanic folklore, Norse ...
Vulcan ( Latin: Vulcanus, in archaically retained spelling also Volcanus, both pronounced [wʊɫˈkaːnʊs]) is the god of fire [ 1] including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth. He is often depicted with a blacksmith's hammer. [ 2]
Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...
In Greek mythology, Orion ( / əˈraɪən /; Ancient Greek: Ὠρίων or Ὠαρίων; Latin: Orion) [ 1] was a giant huntsman whom Zeus (or perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion . Ancient sources told several different stories about Orion; there are two major versions of his birth and several versions of his ...
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