 This lake is referred to by poets as "speculum Dianae" – "Diana's Mirror"; by the town of Aricia which was situated about three miles off, at the foot of the "Albanus Mons", the Alban Mount, and separated by a steep descent from the lake, which lies in a small crater-like hollow on the mountainside.According to one of several Hellenising foundation myths, the worship of Diana at Nemi would have been instituted by Orestes, who, after killing Thoas, king in the Tauric Chersonesus (the Crimea), fled with his sister Iphigenia to Italy, bringing with him the image of the Tauric Diana hidden in a mound of sticks.After his death, the myth has it, his bones were transported from Aricia to Rome and buried in front of the Temple of Saturn, on the Capitoline slope, beside the Temple of Concord.