About Me: In Ovid's Metamorphoses (xiii.750-68) Acis was the spirit of the Acis River in Sicily, beloved of the nereid, or sea-nymph,[1] Galatea ('she who
is milk-white'). Galatea returned the love of Acis, but a jealous suitor, the Sicilian Cyclops Polyphemus,[2] killed him with a boulder. Distraught, Galatea then turned his blood into the river Acis. The Acis River flowed past Akion (Acium) near Mount Etna in Sicily.
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