Akis
Akis ( ancient Greek Ἄκις , Latin Acis ) was in ancient mythology a son of Pan and the nymph Symaethis , a daughter of Symaethus , the god of the river Simeto . He loved the Nereid Galateia and was therefore slain by the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus with a rock of Mount Etna . Galateia then transforms the blood flowing out of Akis into the river Akis , which was proverbial in ancient times because of its coldness.
Due to the changes on the eastern flank of Etna during the numerous eruptions, the original location of the Akis River (ital. Aci) is not known. It is believed that it roughly corresponded to today's Fiume di Jaci near Acireale .
For the reception of mythological material in modern art see Galateia .
swell
- Ovid Metamorphoses 13,780-897
- Theocritus 1.69
literature
- Maria Caccamo Caltabiano: Akis . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VIII, Zurich / Munich 1997, pp. 515-516.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Akis . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 210 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Wentzel : Akis 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1170 f.
Web links
Commons : Acis - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Akis in the Theoi Project (English)