La Spedizione Siciliana

Italian 3008 – Spring 2016 – Professors Barbara Weiden Boyd and Davida Gavioli

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Mt. Etna

March 25, 2016 By dbanks

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On our last full day in Sicily, we wound our way up the road to Mount Etna.  The ski resort there wasn’t exactly what I had imagined for Aetna, the volcanic forge of Hephaestus and his cyclopean servants, positioned above the monstrous, flame-spewing Typhon.  I mean, it’s still an active volcano now!  Come on, people.  The entire image of the place just seemed so far removed from the classical representation of raw destructive power.  In a world where its volcanic rock is utilized for construction in the nearby Catania, it seems that Etna is no longer the fearsome icon it used to be.

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