| LC control no. | no2019114443 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cacus (Roman deity) |
| Variant(s) | Kakos (Roman deity) Κακος (Roman deity) Caco (Roman deity) Какус (Roman deity) Kakus (Roman deity) Cacus (Giant) Kakos (Giant) |
| Associated country | Rome |
| Located | Aventine Hill (Italy) |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Small, Jocelyn Penny. Cacus and Marsyas in Etrusco-Roman legend, 1982. Encyclopædia Britannica online, August 5, 2019 (Cacus and Caca; Roman deities; Cacus and Caca, in Roman religion, brother and sister, respectively, originally fire deities of the early Roman settlement on the Palatine Hill; The Roman poet Virgil (Aeneid, Book VIII) described Cacus as the son of the flame god Vulcan and as a monstrous fire-breathing brigand who terrorized the countryside) <https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cacus-and-Caca> Encyclopedia mythica, via WWW, August 5, 2019 (Cacus; He is usually called a son of Vulcan, and Ovid, who gives his story with considerable embellishments, describes Cacus as a fearful giant, who was the terror of the whole land; common opinion is that he was the personification of some evil daemon) <https://pantheon.org/articles/c/cacus.html> Theoi Project website, August 5, 2019 (Kakos (Cacus) was a monstrous, fire-breathing giant who dwelt in a cave on the Aventine Hill in Latium--later the site of Rome; Greek name: Κακος = Kakos) <https://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GiganteKakos.html> Wikipedia, August 5, 2019 (In Roman mythology, Cacus (Kakos in ancient Greek, derived from κακός, meaning bad) was a fire-breathing giant and the son of Vulcan. He was killed by Hercules after terrorizing the Aventine Hill before the founding of Rome) Spanish version (Caco) Italian version (Caco) Russian version (Какус = Kakus) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh 85018609 |
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