Adranus Adranus Adranus or Adranos (Greek: ) 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. Adranus himself was said to have lived under Mount Etna before being driven out by the Greek god Hephaestus, or Vulcan. According to Aelian, about a thousand sacred dogs were kept near his temple in this town. According to Hesychius, Adranus was said to have been the father of the Palici, born to Adranus's lover, the nymph Thalia. Some
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written in 2007 by historian Daniel Walker Howe. The book is part of the "Oxford History of the United States". The book provides an intellectual, religious, social, and political history of the United States at the time when America’s founders were handing the leadership of the nation to a new generation. Howe demonstrates that Americans during this period considered their country an example of Democracy for the rest of the world. He argues that the most important