Bootes

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §2.3 Boötes

  The constellation of the Wagoner or Ploughman, near the Bear; a star not to be navigated by.

• The Heroides §18 Arctophylax

  The constellation Bootes (the Bear-Watcher), whose setting signals stormy seas.

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.7 of Arcturus

  Arcturus, the bright star in Bootes whose setting marked stormy weather; with the Pleiades, a sign of the perilous season of Ovid's voyage.

• The Festivals §2.12 Bear's Guardian

  The constellation Bootes (Arctophylax), imagined as following close behind the Great Bear.

• The Festivals §5.25 Bootes

  The constellation of the Plowman/Herdsman, which sets as the month ends.

• The Festivals §6.7 Lycaon

  The Arcadian turned into (or father of) the constellation of the Bear, here setting.

• Metamorphoses §8.199 Bootes

  The constellation Bootes (the Ploughman/Ox-driver), one Daedalus tells Icarus not to steer by.

• Metamorphoses §10.307 Bootes

  The constellation Bootes (the Ox-driver), here marking the dead of night.