Saturn

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.8 Saturn

  The god who ruled heaven in the Golden Age before Jupiter, when the unbought earth gave all freely.

• The Heroides §4 Saturn

  The old god of the Golden Age; Phaedra dismisses the scruple against incest as a relic of his rustic reign.

• The Festivals §1 Saturn's reign

  Saturn, received by Janus in Latium when driven from heaven by Jove; his reign was the Golden Age of honest simplicity.

• The Festivals §4.4 Saturn

  The Titan father warned he would be unthroned by a son, who swallowed his children.

• The Festivals §5.proem Saturn

  The old sky-god, father of Jupiter, whose reign was the Golden Age; here he holds heaven's throne before the cosmic order is fixed.

• The Festivals §6.proem Saturn

  The old sky-god, father of Juno, Ceres, and Vesta; Rome was once 'Saturnia.'

• Ibis §7 scythe-bearing old man

  Saturn, the cold and baleful planet pictured as a scythe-bearing old man.

• Ibis §8 Saturn

  Saturn, who castrated his father Caelus (Uranus) with a sickle — the model for the enemy's mutilation.

• Metamorphoses §1.3 Saturn

  Father of Jupiter, ruler in the Golden Age; cast down to Tartarus when Jove took the world.

• Metamorphoses §3.48 Saturn's daughter

  Saturn, the old sky-god father of Jupiter and Juno; 'Saturnia,' Saturn's daughter, is a standing title of Juno.

• Metamorphoses §15.518 less than Jove

  Saturn, surpassed by his son Jupiter.