Venus

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.1 Venus

  Goddess of love and Cupid's mother; the catalogue of absurd reversals imagines her wielding Minerva's weapons.

• The Loves §1.3 Cytherea

  Venus, called Cytherea from the island of Cythera near which she rose from the sea; the poet hopes she has heard his prayers.

• The Loves §2.10 Erycina

  Venus, called Erycina from her temple on Mount Eryx in Sicily; blamed for doubling the poet's loves.

• The Art of Love §1.1 Venus

  Roman goddess of love and sexual desire, mother of Cupid/Amor and patron of the poem; Ovid serves as her appointed craftsman.

• The Art of Love §2.1 Cytherea

  Cult title of Venus, from the island of Cythera near which she rose from the sea.

• The Art of Love §3.6 Idalian goddess

  Venus, worshipped at Idalium on Cyprus; the standard of beauty.

• The Heroides §2 Venus

  Goddess of love, sworn by as a witness to Demophoon's vows.

• The Heroides §4 Venus

  Goddess of love, whose 'tribute' Phaedra imagines exacted from her whole accursed family.

• The Heroides §5 Venus

  Goddess of love, who won the Judgment of Paris by promising him Helen.

• The Heroides §7 Venus

  Goddess of love and mother of Aeneas; Dido appeals to her as a would-be daughter-in-law, and contrasts the goddess's tenderness with her son's hardness.

• The Heroides §7 the mother of the Loves

  Venus, born from the sea-foam off Cythera, who therefore avenges wronged love upon those who break faith at sea.

• The Heroides §7 Cytherean waters

  The sea off Cythera from which Venus rose; her marine birth makes the deep an avenger of betrayed lovers.

• The Heroides §7 a goddess mother

  Venus, Aeneas's divine mother, whose parentage made Dido trust him a man who would stay.

• The Heroides §9 Venus

  Goddess of love; Deianira says she has harmed Hercules more than Juno, bowing his neck to passion.

• The Heroides §15 Erycina

  Venus of Eryx in Sicily, to whom Sappho appeals as the goddess's own poet.

• The Heroides §15 Venus

  Goddess of love, born of the sea; she would carry Phaon to heaven, and makes the sea kind to lovers.

• The Heroides §16 the mother of Love

  Venus, mother of Cupid, who urged Paris's voyage and promised him Helen.

• The Heroides §16 Cytherea

  Venus, called Cytherea from the isle of Cythera; she pledged Helen to Paris and won the Judgment.

• The Heroides §16 the mother of the Loves

  Venus, who lay with Anchises on Ida.

• The Heroides §17 Venus

  Goddess who 'bargained' Helen to Paris at the Judgment; her praise, Helen says, brings envy.

• The Heroides §17 Cytherea

  Venus, who favors Paris for his judgment but whose favor Helen distrusts.

• The Heroides §18 Venus

  Goddess of love and of Hero's priesthood; her beauty matched, says Leander, only by Hero's and the Moon's.

• The Heroides §19 Venus

  Goddess born of the sea, who (Hero says) will smooth the waves for a daring lover.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.10 pleasure of Venus

  Venus, goddess of love, here for sexual pleasure; Ovid insists it is not indulgence but climate and grief that waste him.

• The Festivals §proem Venus's

  Venus, ancestress of the Julian line, lies behind the second month, April.

• The Festivals §4.proem Venus

  Goddess of love and generation, mother of the month of April and ancestress of the Julian house through Aeneas.

• The Festivals §6.9 Venus

  Goddess of love, ancestress of the Julian house, who pleads for Latium before Jupiter.

• The Festivals §9 the Idalian hearths

  Idalium in Cyprus was sacred to Venus; the dove, her bird, is burned on her altars.

• Ibis §7 Venus

  Venus, the benign planet; her absence at the enemy's birth dooms his horoscope.

• Metamorphoses §1.9 the son of Venus

  Venus, goddess of love and mother of Cupid, whose arrows here humble Apollo.

• Metamorphoses §3.43 Mars and Venus

  Venus, goddess of love; she and Mars were the parents of Harmonia, Cadmus's wife — making the war-god and love-goddess his parents-in-law.

• Metamorphoses §10.298 kindly Venus

  Venus, goddess of love, whose chief cult lay in Cyprus.

• Metamorphoses §10.310 Venus

  Venus, who, grazed by Cupid's arrow, falls in love with Adonis.

• Metamorphoses §13.420 kindly Venus

  Goddess of love, whose power tames even the Cyclops.

• Metamorphoses §14.430 Venus, stung by her father's tale-bearing

  The Sun (Circe's father) had betrayed Venus's affair with Mars to her husband Vulcan; in revenge Venus afflicted the Sun's offspring, Circe among them, with helpless and ruinous loves.

• Metamorphoses §14.452 kindly Venus, remembering the old wound

  Venus pursues Diomedes for having wounded her hand at Troy (Iliad 5); her grudge drives him from his homeland.

• Metamorphoses §14.453 Cytherea

  Venus, called Cytherea from the island of Cythera near which she rose from the sea; her grudge against Diomedes is the 'old anger' Acmon revives.

• Metamorphoses §14.462 Venus of Idalium

  Venus, worshipped at Idalium on Cyprus; she 'hates hard hearts' and avenges scorned lovers -- as in the tale that follows.

• Metamorphoses §14.465 Venus the Watcher

  Venus Prospiciens, 'the one who looks out' -- a Cyprian cult-title fixed to the spot from which the petrified Anaxarete watched Iphis's bier.

• Metamorphoses §15.486 obscene Salmacis

  The enervating Carian spring of the Salmacis tale; here cited among mind-altering waters.

• Metamorphoses §15.490 doves of Cythera

  The doves sacred to Venus, goddess of Cythera.

• Metamorphoses §15.512 mother of Aeneas

  Venus, ancestress of the Julian line, who pleads for Caesar.

• Metamorphoses §15.514 Cytherea struck

  Venus (Cytherea), who tries to shroud Caesar as she once saved Paris and Aeneas.

• Metamorphoses §15.517 kindly Venus

  Venus, who catches up Caesar's soul and makes it a star.

• The Cure for Love §1 your wounded mother

  Venus, mother of Cupid and goddess of love; struck by Diomedes at Troy, she fled to heaven, borne (Ovid says) by the horses of Mars.

• The Cure for Love §20 the Appias

  The Appiades, nymphs of the fountain by the temple of Venus near the Forum of Caesar; emblems of love's concord, here disapproving of lovers' lawsuits.

• Sorrows §1.2 Venus

  Goddess of love and mother of Aeneas, who guarded him through Juno's enmity.