The Pleiades

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §1.12 the Pleiades

  Star-cluster whose autumn setting marked the start of the stormy, unsailable season—Ovid's image for a bad time to begin.

• The Heroides §18 the Pleiad

  The Pleiades, whose autumn setting brings the season of storms Leander dreads.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.5 of the Pleiades

  The Pleiades, the star-cluster; their far-distant signs stand for the remotest reaches whose praise, Ovid argues, profits an author nothing.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.8 the risen Pleiad

  The Pleiades, whose heliacal rising marks the season; 'four autumns' of their rising measure Ovid's years already spent in exile.

• The Festivals §4.2 the Pleiades

  The seven daughters of Atlas as a star-cluster, said to be called seven but visibly six.

• The Festivals §5.proem the Pleiades

  The seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, set among the stars; Maia, mother of Mercury, was one of them.

• Metamorphoses §6.132 the Pleiades

  The seven daughters of Atlas, set among the stars; Niobe claims one of them, Dione/Taygete, as her mother.