Apollo

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.1 Phoebus

  Apollo, god of poetry and the lyre; equally absurd armed with a spear while Mars takes up the lyre.

• The Loves §1.15 Apollo

  God of poetry; 'golden Apollo' serves the poet Castalian water in place of common wine.

• The Art of Love §1.1 Phoebus

  Apollo, god of prophecy, the lyre and the sun; Ovid disclaims any divine inspiration for his worldly art.

• The Art of Love §2.1 io Paean

  Ritual cry invoking Apollo as Paean (healer/deliverer); here a shout of triumph over love won.

• The Art of Love §2.4 the Clarian god

  Apollo, worshipped with a famous oracle at Claros in Ionia.

• The Art of Love §2.12 Cynthian

  Apollo, born on Mt. Cynthus, who served as herdsman to Admetus and lived in a humble hut for love or penance.

• The Art of Love §2.23 Apollo

  God of poetry, prophecy, and the lyre, who appears to endorse the poet's teaching with the Delphic maxim.

• The Heroides §1 Phoebus

  Apollo, who with Neptune built the walls of Troy; 'the walls of Phoebus' are Troy's, whose fall Penelope half-wishes undone.

• The Heroides §5 the builder of Troy

  Apollo, who raised Troy's walls and, loving Oenone, taught her the healing art of herbs.

• The Heroides §8 Apollo

  God who sped the arrow that killed Achilles; Hermione wishes Achilles had escaped it.

• The Heroides §13 Phoebus

  The Sun (Phoebus), by whose rising and setting Laodamia bids Protesilaus hasten home.

• The Heroides §15 Apollo

  God of poetry and the lyre, whom Phaon would resemble if armed with lyre and quiver.

• The Heroides §15 Phoebus

  Apollo, who loved Daphne; later, the god of the Leucadian rock and Sappho's patron in song.

• The Heroides §16 Phoebus's lyre

  Apollo, by whose music (with Neptune) the walls of Troy were raised.

• The Heroides §21 your brother

  Apollo, brother of Diana and god of healing, whose 'health-bringing aid' Cydippe seeks.

• The Heroides §21 the god at Delphi

  Apollo, the oracular god of Delphi, consulted about Cydippe's illness, who 'complains of a faith neglected.'

• Letters from the Black Sea §4.8 Apollo is sluggish

  Apollo, god of both lyre and bow; as he is master of both, so Germanicus joins the poet's art to the prince's — Ovid's flattery of his learned dedicatee.

• The Festivals §proem Clarian god

  Apollo, oracular at Claros near Colophon; Germanicus's learned judgment is likened to the god's.

• The Festivals §4.4 Paean

  Apollo, here under his healing title Paean, who directs Rome to fetch the Mother from Ida.

• The Festivals §5.15 Ortygian cattle

  The cattle of Apollo (born on Ortygia/Delos) which the infant Mercury stole — fitting patron for tricky merchants.

• The Festivals §6.9 Sminthean Apollo

  Apollo Smintheus, whose oracle declared that to guard the Palladium was to guard the city.

• Ibis §5 Phoebus

  Phoebus Apollo, god of prophecy, who grants the poet omens that his curse will be fulfilled.

• Ibis §14 Phoebus' sacred altars

  Apollo (Phoebus), at whose altar the victim Theudotus was slaughtered by an enemy.

• Metamorphoses §1.7 Phoebus's poles

  Phoebus is the Sun (also Apollo); 'under both of Phoebus's poles' means the shores of east and west, the sun's rising and setting.

• Metamorphoses §1.9 Phoebus's first love

  Apollo, called Phoebus, the Delian, Paean; god of prophecy, archery, healing, and song, here mastered by love.

• Metamorphoses §3.38 the oracle of Phoebus

  Phoebus Apollo, god of prophecy, whose oracle at Delphi directs Cadmus to follow a heifer and found a city where she lies down.

• Metamorphoses §3.53 worthy of Bacchus, worthy too of Apollo

  Apollo, god of youth and beauty; like Bacchus, a type of the beautiful long-haired young god.

• Metamorphoses §8.189 son of Latona

  Apollo, said to have rested his lyre on Megara's wall, leaving the stone musical when struck.

• Metamorphoses §10.291 that god who tunes the lyre

  Apollo, god of the lyre and the bow, who loved the boy Cyparissus.

• Metamorphoses §12.381 the unshorn Sminthian

  God of archery (Sminthian, Delian), co-builder of Troy's walls, who guides Paris's arrow into Achilles.

• Metamorphoses §13.392 Apollo's cities

  Apollo (Phoebus), god of prophecy and the bow, patron of several Troad towns.

• Metamorphoses §14.464 call on the Paean

  The Paean is a song of triumph and thanksgiving, sung especially to Apollo; Iphis bids Anaxarete celebrate her cruel 'victory.'

• Metamorphoses §15.479 hand to Phoebus

  Phoebus Apollo as the Sun-god, to whom dawn hands the day.

• Metamorphoses §15.518 Phoebus of the household

  Apollo, Augustus's patron and household god.

• The Cure for Love §3 Phoebus

  Apollo, god of poetry, prophecy, and healing — patron of both 'the bard and the healer,' the two roles Ovid here combines.

• Sorrows §1.2 Apollo

  Apollo, who in the Trojan War stood for Troy against Vulcan.

• Sorrows §3.2 Letoian stock

  Apollo, son of Leto (Latona), god of poetry, likewise powerless to help his devotee.