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History
Aetna is the direct descendant of Aetna (Fire) Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut. The name was meant to invoke Mount Etna, at the time Europe's most active volcano.
Meaning of aetna
Aetna (Greek: Αἴτνη) was in Greek and Roman mythology a Sicilian nymph, and according to Alcimus, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea, or of Briareus. Simonides said that she had acted as arbitrator between Hephaestus and Demeter respecting the possession of Sicily.
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