Liber

Reading notes

• Letters from the Black Sea §4.8 victor Liber

  Liber (Bacchus), celebrated as conqueror returning from India; an example of divine glory that song confers.

• The Festivals §9 Liber

  Italian wine-god identified with Bacchus, who supplies the wine.

• Metamorphoses §3.50 twice-born Bacchus

  Liber, the Italian name under which Bacchus is worshipped; 'twice-born' from Semele's womb and Jupiter's thigh.

• Metamorphoses §3.56 Liber, the offspring of Semele

  Liber/Bacchus, son of Semele, whose new worship Tiresias warns Pentheus to honour.

• Metamorphoses §3.60 says Liber

  Liber/Bacchus, here the disguised boy who names Naxos as his home.

• Metamorphoses §13.416 Liber gave

  Bacchus (Liber), who gave Anius's daughters their miraculous gift.

• Sorrows §5.3 Liber

  Bacchus (Liber), god of wine and poets, whose festival Ovid keeps in exile and begs to intercede with Caesar.