Mythological Sicilians

Polyphemus (; , ; ) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey. His name means "abounding in songs and legends", "many-voiced" or "very famous". Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the Odyssey. The satyr play Cyclops by Euripides is dependent on this episode with some differences in the story and while also being more comedic in nature. Later Classical writers that presented him in their poems linked his name with the nymph Galatea as he tried to seduce her. Often he was portrayed

thumb| Statue of Daphnis, 1st-2nd century CE, Parian marble In Greek mythology, Daphnis (; , from , daphne, "Bay Laurel") was a legendary Sicilian cowherd who was said to be the inventor of pastoral poetry. According to Diodorus the Sicilian (1st century BC), Daphnis was born in the Heraean Mountains of central Sicily.

thumb|320px|The fourth panel of the so-called “Odyssey Landscapes” wall painting from the Vatican Museums in Rome, 60–40 BC. In Greek mythology, the Laestrygonians or Laestrygones () were a tribe of man-eating giants. They were said to have sprung from Laestrygon, son of Poseidon.

Greek mythology, the king of the city Eryx in Sicily

thumb|Aeneas and Acestes by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) In Roman mythology, Acestes or Egestes () was the son of the Sicilian river-god Crinisus by a Dardanian or Trojan woman named Egesta or Segesta.

Cocalus is also a genus of jumping spiders.

The Palici (, romanized: , singular Palicus (Παλικός)), or Palaci, were a pair of indigenous Sicilian chthonic deities in Roman mythology, and to a lesser extent in Greek mythology. They are mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses V, 406, and in Virgil's Aeneid IX, 585. Their cult centered on three small lakes that emitted sulphurous vapors in the Palagonia plain, and as a result these twin brothers were associated with geysers and the underworld. There was also a shrine to the Palaci in Palacia, where people could subject themselves or others to tests of reliability through divine judgement; passin

Adranus or Adranos () was a fire god worshipped by the Sicels, an ancient population of the island of Sicily. His worship occurred all over the island, but particularly in the town of Adranus (modern Adrano) near Mount Etna. According to Aelian, about a thousand sacred dogs were kept near his temple in this town.

couple in Greek mythology

Sicilian nymph, connected to Mount Etna

In Greek mythology, the name Butes (; ) referred to several different people.

son of Anchises in Greek mythology

thumb|right|280px|Fight between Entellus and Dares, Roman mosaic, c. 175, [[Getty Villa (71.AH.106)]]

In Greek mythology, Leucaspis () was a Sicani prince who entered into combat with Heracles when he passed through Sicily, on return from the country of Geryon.

In Greek mythology, the name Cyanippus (Ancient Greek: Κυάνιππος) may refer to: