Diana

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.5 Diana

  Virgin huntress and moon-goddess, sister of Phoebus; the chaste sisterly kiss is the foil to Venus's lover's kiss to Mars.

• The Art of Love §1.9 suburban Diana

  Virgin goddess of the hunt and chastity; hating Cupid's darts, she still deals love-wounds to her visitors.

• The Heroides §4 the Delian

  Diana, born on Delos, virgin goddess of the hunt with her curved bow; Phaedra takes up her pursuits to be near Hippolytus.

• The Heroides §4 Diana

  Virgin huntress-goddess whose service Hippolytus prizes above love; Phaedra urges him to temper her worship with Venus.

• The Heroides §12 Diana

  In whose golden Colchian shrine Jason swore his oath to Medea; here identified with Hecate's triple power.

• The Heroides §20 Diana

  Virgin goddess of the hunt, in whose temple Cydippe read aloud and so swore the binding oath; she enforces it with sickness.

• The Heroides §20 the Delian goddess

  Diana of Delos, cheated along with Acontius if Cydippe breaks her oath.

• The Heroides §20 the maiden-goddess's bow

  Diana's bow; Acontius warns Cydippe not to provoke the goddess by perjury.

• The Heroides §20 the quivered goddess

  Diana of the quiver, at whose rites on Delos Acontius first saw Cydippe.

• The Heroides §20 the archer Phoebe

  Diana (Phoebe) the archer, who Acontius says bade him write in dreams; her arrows have wounded him.

• The Heroides §21 Diana

  The virgin goddess whose oath binds Cydippe and whose anger, she fears, brings her recurring sickness.

• The Heroides §21 the daughter of Latona

  Diana, daughter of Latona, whose wrath Cydippe fears as the cause of her sickness.

• The Heroides §21 goddess of the painted quiver

  Diana, addressed as the huntress, begged to relent and grant healing.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.1 Diana's bidding

  Diana (Greek Artemis), here invoked for the begging seers who claimed her authority; the gods tolerate such petitioning even when they did not command it.

• The Festivals §4.21 Diana

  The huntress goddess, whom the shepherd prays never to glimpse at her bath.

• The Festivals §5.10 the Delian

  Diana (born on Delos), who took Orion as her hunting companion.

• The Festivals §5.10 Latona

  Mother of Apollo and Diana, who set Orion among the stars.

• The Festivals §6.7 Phoebe

  Diana, the moon-goddess, who 'removes Lycaon'—that is, the Bear (Arcas/Lycaon) sets.

• The Festivals §6.21 Dictynna

  Diana (the Cretan huntress), who hides the restored Hippolytus as Virbius at Aricia.

• The Festivals §9 Diana

  A hind was once substituted for the virgin (Iphigenia) at her altar, so hinds now fall to her.

• Metamorphoses §1.2 Phoebe

  The Moon, sister of the Sun (identified with Diana); she had not yet renewed her crescent in Chaos.

• Metamorphoses §1.9 Phoebe

  Diana (Phoebe), the virgin huntress whom Daphne emulates; her name marks Daphne's vow of chastity.

• Metamorphoses §1.11 the Ortygian goddess

  Diana, called Ortygian from Ortygia (Delos), whose chaste manner Syrinx imitates.

• Metamorphoses §2.23 Phoebe

  A name of Diana, goddess of the hunt and the moon, whose band Callisto follows.

• Metamorphoses §2.23 Trivia

  A cult-title of Diana ('of the crossroads').

• Metamorphoses §2.24 Diana

  Virgin goddess of the hunt; Jupiter assumes her shape to deceive Callisto.

• Metamorphoses §2.24 Dictynna

  A name of Diana (from the Cretan nymph Dictynna), here the true goddess returning from the hunt.

• Metamorphoses §2.24 Cynthia

  Diana, named from her birth on Mount Cynthus on Delos.

• Metamorphoses §2.33 golden Phoebe

  The moon (Diana), brighter than the morning star, to which Herse's beauty is compared.

• Metamorphoses §3.44 sacred to girt-up Diana

  Diana, virgin goddess of the hunt; 'girt-up' (succincta) describes her huntress's tucked tunic.

• Metamorphoses §8.202 Diana

  Diana, goddess of the hunt, who sent the boar in revenge for neglected sacrifice.

• Metamorphoses §8.217 Latona's daughter

  Diana, who at last turns Meleager's mourning sisters into birds (the Meleagrides).

• Metamorphoses §10.310 Diana's manner

  Diana, goddess of the hunt, in whose huntress fashion Venus now ranges the woods.

• Metamorphoses §12.352 Diana

  Goddess of the hunt and the moon, whose wrath becalms the fleet until appeased; she substitutes a hind for Iphigenia.

• Metamorphoses §13.393 savage Diana

  Goddess of the hunt, whose anger becalmed the fleet until Iphigenia was offered.

• Metamorphoses §15.479 form of Diana

  Diana as the Moon, ever changing her shape.

• Metamorphoses §15.497 Orestean Diana

  Diana of Aricia (Nemi), whose cult image was said to have been brought from the Tauric land by Orestes.

• Metamorphoses §15.500 then Cynthia

  Diana (Cynthia), who hid the revived Hippolytus and set him in her grove.

• Metamorphoses §15.501 the sister of Phoebus

  Diana, who turns Egeria into a cool spring.

• The Cure for Love §7 Phoebus's sister

  Diana (Artemis), Apollo's twin and goddess of the hunt; chastity's pursuit, before which Venus 'withdrew in disgrace.'

• Sorrows §2.1 Diana

  The virgin goddess of the hunt, whose unintended sight destroyed Actaeon — and, by analogy, Ovid.