Aethiops

The term aethiops can refer to a number of different things:

• Aethiops, a son of the Greek god Hephaestus from whom, according to Pliny the Elder (Nat Hist. 6.184-187), Aethiopia derived its name.
• Zeus Aethiops an epithet of the Greek god Zeus.
• The Aethiop is an Aesop's fable, number 91 by George Fyler Townsend's translation.
• Aethiops, or æthiops or ethiops, refers to certain dark-colored minerals:

• Ethiops martial is wüstite.
• Aethiops mineral is a form of cinnabar, also known as metacinnabarite. Historically, it was prescribed for parasitic worms and all crudities and acrimony of the humours. It was reputedly infallible against the itch and other cutaneous diseases.