{"id":769,"date":"2016-04-17T14:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T18:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/?p=769"},"modified":"2016-04-17T14:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T18:50:40","slug":"the-cabal-with-their-self-christened-name-stakes-their-claim-to-mt-etna-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/sicily\/the-cabal-with-their-self-christened-name-stakes-their-claim-to-mt-etna-320\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Cabal, with their self-christened name, stakes their claim to Mt. Etna.\u201d (3\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/04\/IMG_2041-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2041\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/04\/IMG_2041-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/04\/IMG_2041-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/04\/IMG_2041-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Etna was a fun way to put a top to our trip on our last full day in Italy. In addition to the great and distinct meanings the still-active volcano has inspired among Sicilians over the centuries, including among its Greeks and Romans and its more contemporary writers of modern literature, the significance of the volcano as a geological site was also intriguing to me, since just last semester I fulfilled my INS requirement with an Earth and Oceanographic Science class in which we covered volcanoes. Although I could have benefitted from brushing up on some of the course material or having Cam\u2019s company and his EOS knowledge, I really enjoyed examining some of the rock and seeing the traces of the volcano\u2019s wrath as the bus winded us up toward it. I pondered how exactly the physical and geological aspects of the volcano\/mountain have influenced popular and literary perceptions of it, especially considering its geological and cultural connection with Mt. Vesuvius over in Naples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mt. Etna was a fun way to put a top to our trip on our last full day in Italy. In addition to the great and distinct meanings the still-active volcano has inspired among Sicilians over the centuries, including among its Greeks and Romans and its more contemporary writers of modern literature, the significance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicily","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}