Lake Avernus (Italian: Lago d'Averno) is a volcanic crater lake located in the Avernus crater in the Campania region of southern Italy, around 4 kilometres (2+1⁄2 miles) west of Pozzuoli. It is near the volcanic field known as the Phlegraean Fields (Campi Flegrei) and comprises part of the wider Campanian volcanic arc. The lake is roughly circular, measuring two kilometres (1+1⁄4 mi) in circumference and 60 metres (200 ft) deep.
LakeAvernus (Italian: Lago d'Averno) is a volcanic crater lake located in the Avernus crater in the Campania region of southern Italy, around 4 kilometres...
volcanoes, Avernus is approximately 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) in circumference. Within the crater is LakeAvernus (Lago d'Averno). Avernus was believed...
priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy, near LakeAvernus (i.e., Cumae). The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek...
years ago); and more recent activity towards the west, which formed LakeAvernus and Monte Nuovo (New Mountain) (3,800–500 years ago). Volcanic deposits...
the free dictionary. Averno may refer to: LakeAvernus (Lago d'Averno), a crater lake in south Italy Avernus, entrance to the Roman underworld Averno (poetry...
designation Cimmerian refers to priestesses who lived underground near LakeAvernus. An oracular shrine dedicated to Apollo, as at Delphi, stood on the Acropolis...
Greeks who settled in Italy identified the Acherusian lake into which Acheron flowed with LakeAvernus. Plato in his Phaedo identified Acheron as the second...
A volcanic crater lake is a lake in a crater that was formed by explosive activity or a collapse during a volcanic eruption. Lakes in calderas fill large...
Tunnel) is an ancient Roman tunnel nearly a kilometre in length connecting LakeAvernus with Cumae and dating from 38-36 BC. It was burrowed through the tuff...
mistakenly states that the painting depicts the lake at Nemi, though it is actually LakeAvernus. The lake of Nemi, also known as "Diana's Mirror", was a...
Angitola Lake (Lago dell'Angitola) Lago di Annone Lago di Anterselva Lago Arancio Lago di Ariamacina Lake of Arno (Lago d'Arno) Lago Arvo LakeAvernus (Lago...
seems not to have himself regarded Avernus as a ploutonion. There was a Ploutonion at Acharaca.[citation needed] Avernus Gates of Hell Pluto's Gate (the...
According to Cicero, the Manes could be called forth from the caves near LakeAvernus. When a new town was founded, a round hole would be dug and a stone called...
The only eruption in historical times, which generated Monte Nuovo and LakeAvernus, was of low intensity, and was preceded by a period of quiescence that...
modern-day Naples and Pozzuoli and the Grotta di Cocceio, connecting LakeAvernus and Cumae. Cocceius was responsible for the conversion of the Capitolium...
Marcus Agrippa and his chosen architect Cocceius. Agrippa knew that LakeAvernus was invisible from the surrounding sea and bay waters, and reasoned that...
channel on the northern side of Lake Lucrinus to connect it to LakeAvernus, a marshy lake further inland, creating a multi-tiered port complex that was...
Aeneas visited the underworld, entering through a cave at the edge of LakeAvernus on the Bay of Naples. Hercules entered the Underworld from this same...
Campania, southern Italy. It is less than one kilometre to the south of LakeAvernus and is separated from the Gulf of Pozzuoli by a narrow strip of land...
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