Hymen

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §1.16 Hymenaeus

  God of weddings, invoked in the marriage-cry as bride and god are joined.

• The Heroides §2 Hymen

  God of marriage and the wedding-song, invoked as guarantor of the promised union.

• The Heroides §6 Hymen

  God of weddings, present with garlands at Hypsipyle's lawful marriage but absent from Jason's with Medea.

• The Heroides §9 Hymen

  God of marriage, here 'notorious' for joining Hercules and Iole.

• The Heroides §11 Hymenaeus

  God of marriage, bidden flee Canace's accursed wedding.

• The Heroides §12 Hymen

  God of weddings, whose marriage-cry at Jason's new wedding sounds to Medea like a funeral trumpet.

• The Heroides §14 Hymenaeus

  God of marriage, who fled the false and murderous wedding of the Danaids.

• The Heroides §21 Hymenaeus

  God of weddings, who 'three times' fled Cydippe's altars as she fell ill.

• Metamorphoses §1.9 Hymen

  God of marriage; Daphne 'cares not what Hymen' is, scorning wedlock.

• Metamorphoses §10.286 Hymenaeus

  Hymenaeus (Hymen), god of weddings, whose ill-omened presence foreshadows Eurydice's death.