Acis (Greek mythological character)

LC control no.	no2019086458
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Acis (Greek mythological character) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Akis (Greek mythological character) Ακις (Greek mythological character)
Associated country	Italy
Associated place	Sicily (Italy)
Profession or occupation	Shepherds
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	Handel, George Frideric. Acis and Galatea, 2018. Cañizares, José de. Acis y Galatea, 2011. The Oxford classical dictionary, 1996 (under Galatea: Galatea loved a youth, Acis, son of Faunus (Pan ?) and a river-nymph; Galatea turned him into a river, which bore his name ever after) Classical mythology, 1999: page I-12 (Acis, Galatea's beloved, changed into a river-god) Encyclopædia Britannica online, June 11, 2019 (Acis, in the Greek mythology of Ovid, the son of Faunus (Pan) and the nymph Symaethis. He was a beautiful shepherd of Sicily, the lover of the Nereid Galatea. His rival, Polyphemus the Cyclops, surprised them together and crushed him to pieces with a rock. His blood, gushing forth from beneath, was metamorphosed by Galatea into a river bearing his name, Acis or Acinius, at the base of Mount Etna (the modern river Jaci). The story is known in no other extant source but Book XIV of Ovid's Metamorphoses. A number of Sicilian towns, including Acireale and Aci Catena, are named after him.) Theoi Project website, June 11, 2019 (Akis (Acis) was a river-god of eastern Sikelia (Sicily). He was originally a Sikelian (Sicilian) youth loved by the Nereid Galateia whose jealous rival, the Kyklops (Cyclops) Polyphemos, killed him with the cast of a boulder. The gods in pity transformed the dying youth into a river; a son of Faunus and Symaethis; Greek name: Ακις = Akis; Latin spelling: Acis) Wikipedia, June 11, 2019 (Acis and Galatea is a story from Greek mythology that originally appeared in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit; Acis, the son of Faunus and the river-nymph Symaethis, daughter of the River Symaethus)
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