Minerva

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.1 Minerva

  Goddess of war-craft and wisdom; 'blonde Minerva' fanning love's torches is one of the impossible role-swaps.

• The Loves §1.7 Minerva

  Here the goddess at whose temple Cassandra fell prostrate; addressed as 'chaste Minerva.'

• The Art of Love §1.18 Pallas

  Minerva (Pallas Athena), goddess of wisdom and crafts, the other loser of the Judgment of Paris.

• The Art of Love §2.24 tree of Pallas

  The olive, sacred to Pallas (Minerva); its grey-green berries are past counting, like love's pains.

• The Art of Love §2.29 like Minerva

  Minerva (Pallas), the grey-eyed goddess; a flattering name for a grey-eyed girl (as 'like Venus' for a squinting one).

• The Art of Love §3.25 Pallas

  Pallas (Minerva), who flung away the flute on seeing how it distorted her face in the water.

• The Heroides §3 the goddess

  Minerva (Athena), who in the Iliad stayed Achilles' hand as he half-drew his sword on Agamemnon.

• The Heroides §5 Minerva

  Goddess of war and wisdom, a contender in the Judgment of Paris, 'comelier with her arms taken up.'

• The Heroides §16 Pallas

  Minerva (Pallas Athena), who offered Paris valor in the Judgment; daughter of Jove.

• The Heroides §17 Pallas's honors

  The gifts of valor offered by Minerva (Pallas) in the Judgment, which Paris spurned.

• The Heroides §19 oil of Pallas

  Olive oil, the gift of Minerva (Pallas), with which swimmers and athletes anointed themselves.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.4 along with Pallas

  Pallas Athena (Minerva), patron of the Argo's building and of Jason; a guardian Ovid lacked.

• The Festivals §5.2 Minerva

  Goddess of wisdom, born from Jupiter's head without a mother — the slight that prompts Juno's jealous wish.

• The Festivals §6.9 Pallas

  The Palladium, the heaven-sent image of armed Minerva on which Troy's (and then Rome's) safety depended.

• The Festivals §6.12 Tritonian

  Minerva, born (by one account) near Lake Triton; she tells the story of the flute-players.

• The Festivals §6.19 Pallas

  Minerva, whose worship begins on the Aventine on this day.

• Metamorphoses §2.27 Pallas

  Minerva (Pallas Athena); she had entrusted the basket of Ericthonius to the daughters of Cecrops.

• Metamorphoses §2.35 the Tritonian

  Minerva, named from Lake Tritonis; she recalls Aglauros's old trespass and seeks out Envy.

• Metamorphoses §3.42 Pallas

  Pallas Athena (Minerva), patron goddess of heroes, who bids Cadmus sow the dragon's teeth.

• Metamorphoses §3.43 the Tritonian

  Minerva, called Tritonis from Lake Triton, her reputed birthplace.

• Metamorphoses §8.201 Minerva

  Minerva, from whose sacred citadel (the Acropolis) Perdix was thrown; as Pallas she saved him.

• Metamorphoses §8.202 golden-haired Minerva

  Minerva, to whom Oeneus offered olive oil ('the juice of Pallas').

• Metamorphoses §8.218 Tritonis

  Minerva (Tritonia/Tritonis), tutelary goddess of Athens.

• Metamorphoses §12.360 Pallas

  Pallas Athena, war-goddess and Achilles's patron; he sacrifices a heifer to her, and she warns Theseus of a flung pine.

• Metamorphoses §13.389 Pallas's image

  The Palladium, the sacred image of Pallas Minerva, whose theft was one condition of Troy's capture.

• Sorrows §1.2 Pallas

  Pallas Athena (Minerva), hostile to the Trojans in the war and patron of Ulysses.

• Sorrows §1.2 Minerva

  Minerva (Pallas), who repeatedly saved Ulysses from her uncle Neptune.

• Sorrows §1.10 golden Minerva

  Minerva, whose painted helmet gave Ovid's ship its name and whose power guarded it through the voyage.