Neptune

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.16 Neptune

  Roman god of the sea, whose 'windy power' raises the storms a lover would dare for his mistress.

• The Art of Love §1.10 Neptune

  God of the sea; Agamemnon escaped war on land and Neptune at sea only to die at home.

• The Art of Love §2.26 Neptune

  God of the sea, who interceded with Vulcan to release the snared lovers.

• The Heroides §2 your grandfather

  Neptune, god of the sea, reckoned ancestor of Theseus' line through Aegeus; 'he who soothes the seas the winds have roused.'

• The Heroides §3 Neptune's Pergama

  Neptune, who with Apollo built Troy's walls; 'Neptune's Pergama' is the citadel of Troy, the proper field for Achilles' killing.

• The Heroides §13 Neptune

  Builder of Troy's walls; even he, Laodamia says, grants no safe passage to his own city.

• The Heroides §19 Neptune

  God of the sea, whom Hero reproaches: mindful of his own many loves, he should not bar a lover's way.

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.9 incense to Neptune

  Neptune, god of the sea, to whom the traveler sacrifices for a safe voyage; one of Ovid's examples that worship presumes the god's will to help.

• The Festivals §4.2 Neptune

  God of the sea, consort of the Pleiad Alcyone.

• The Festivals §5.10 god of the sea

  Neptune, one of the three divine guests of Hyrieus.

• Ibis §8 Neptune

  Neptune, god of the sea, imagined no kinder to the enemy than to the shipwrecked figures that follow.

• Metamorphoses §1.6 sea-blue brother

  Neptune, god of the sea and brother of Jupiter, who joins the flood with his rivers and trident.

• Metamorphoses §2.28 the god of the sea

  Neptune, who pursued the maiden along the shore and prompted her transformation.

• Metamorphoses §8.221 Trident-bearer

  Neptune, god of the sea, whose emblem is the trident; he turns Perimele into land.

• Metamorphoses §8.235 Neptune

  Neptune, who grants Mestra the power to change shape and so escape her buyers.

• Metamorphoses §10.314 Neptune

  Neptune, god of the sea, grandsire of Hippomenes through Megareus.

• Metamorphoses §12.352 Neptune

  God of the sea, builder of Troy's walls and father of Cycnus; he later begs Apollo to kill Achilles.

• The Cure for Love §23 Neptune

  God of the sea and grandfather of Hippolytus; he sent the bull that frightened Hippolytus's horses.

• Sorrows §1.2 Neptune

  The sea-god, who in the Odyssey hounded Ulysses, as Jove's anger now hounds Ovid.