Luna

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.8 the Moon's face

  The Moon (Luna), which the witch's blood-magic is said to redden during an eclipse.

• The Loves §1.13 the Moon

  Luna, who loved the shepherd Endymion and lengthened his sleep; cited as a goddess no less lovely than Aurora yet kinder to lovers.

• The Art of Love §3.5 Moon

  Luna, the Moon-goddess, who loved the sleeping Endymion.

• The Heroides §6 the moon

  Luna, the moon-goddess, whom Medea's spells are said to drag down from her course.

• The Heroides §11 Phoebus' sister

  The Moon-goddess (Luna/Diana), sister of Phoebus Apollo; her nine risings mark Canace's pregnancy.

• The Heroides §11 Moon

  Luna, driving her 'light-bringing horses'; her ninth new phase brings Canace to labor.

• The Heroides §15 Phoebe

  The Moon-goddess (who loved Endymion); were she to see Phaon she would bid him sleep on like her shepherd.

• The Heroides §18 the moon

  Luna (Cynthia/Diana), the Moon, Leander's companion-light and patroness, herself a lover of Endymion.

• The Heroides §18 bright goddess

  The Moon, addressed by the swimming Leander as a fellow-lover.

• The Heroides §18 Cynthia

  The Moon (Cynthia, from Mount Cynthus); Leander dares her to deny Hero's beauty.

• Cosmetics for the Female Face §4 Moon

  Luna, the Moon goddess, drawn across the sky by her horses; Ovid's point is that no spell or clashing bronze can really pull her from her course.

• Metamorphoses §14.446 snow-white Moon

  The Moon (Luna); witches were believed to 'draw down' or eclipse her by their spells, as Circe here clouds her father the Sun.

• The Cure for Love §9 the Moon

  Luna, the Moon-goddess, drawn by white horses; no incantation, Ovid says, will draw her down from her course.