Enceladus (en-sel'-ə-dəs, IPA: ), discovered in 1789 by William HerschelW. Herschel (1790). Account of the Discovery of a Sixth and Seventh Satellite of the Planet Saturn; With Remarks on the Construction of Its Ring, Its Atmosphere, Its Rotation on an Axis, and Its Spheroidical Figure, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 80, pp. 1-20, is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/append7.html Planetary Body Names and Discoverers.
In Greek mythology, Enceladus (or Enkelados, ἘγκÎλαδος) was one of the Gigantes, the enormous children of Gaia (Earth) fertilised by the blood of castrated Ouranos.Aphrodite arose from the same origins, yet no myth connected her with the Gigantes. With the other Gigantes, Enceladus appeared in one particular region—either Phlegra, the "burning plain" in ThraceBibliotheke 1.6.1; Hyginus, Fabulae, Proem. The location was removed to Magna Graecia in Hellenistic times: Strabo, in Alexandria, identified Phlegrae with the Phlegraean Plain in Campania, near Cumae., or Pallene.Kerenyi 1951 pp 28f, noting Bibliotheke 1.6.1.