Geology / Volcanic Eruption

140BC

Event #2020: Eruption of Mount Etna associated with fall of objects from the sky

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2020

Geographical sites:

  • Etna (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #462077)
    Pleiades_icon Aetna M. mountain Geocontext: Mt. Etna
    Description: An active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily (known today as Mount Etna).
  • Praeneste (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #423013)
    Pleiades_icon Praeneste urban, settlement, temple, cave Description: An ancient city of central Italy, the eighth and seventh century B.C. origins of which demonstrate high level trade contact with the Eastern Mediterranean world. The city withdrew from the Latin League (499 BC) and opposed Rome in the Latin war; Cincinnatus eventually subdued Praeneste. Sulla founded a new colony there in the first century B.C.
  • Cephallenia (click here to focus in map) (see also GeoNames #260311)
    Geonames_icon Kefalonia Island island Geocontext: Europe/Athens

Citations:

Text #2764

Obsequens. "A Book of Prodigies After the 505th year of Rome"

HTML URL: http://www.alexthenice.com/obsequens/

23.Q. Caepione C. Laelio coss. AUC 614/140 BC

At Praeneste and in Cephallenia standards were seen to have fallen from the sky. Mount Etna overflowed with fire. The prodigy was expiated with forty greater victims. The year was peaceful after the defeat of Viriathus.

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