Mount Oeta : a triangular outlier of the Pindus Mountains in central Greece. Oïleus epithet of Locrian Ajax, son of Oileus, a legendary Locrian king.
... scientific proofs offered for this discovery are first that Hercules performed twelve labours and the solar year is divided into twelve months and, secondly, that Hercules burnt himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta and the sun also sets in a glory of flame behind the mountains. Such proofs seem hardly substantial enough for so strong a conclusion. By the same reasoning Page 189 one could prove the ...
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