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Aetnaea

Αἴτναια

Aetnaea (Αἴτναια), a festival celebrated in honour of Zeus Aetnaeus, so called from Mount Aetna, where a statue had been erected to him. No particulars of this festival are known. (Schol. ad Pind. O. 6.162.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.