The Thracians

Reading notes

• The Heroides §2 Sithonian

  Thracian; the 'Sithonian wave' is the Thracian sea that should carry Demophoon's ships back.

• The Heroides §2 the scorned Thracians

  Phyllis's own people, who now shun marriage with her for having preferred a foreigner.

• The Heroides §16 the Thracians

  The people of Thrace, in whose name (their wind Aquilo) Orithyia was carried off.

• The Heroides §19 a Thracian girl

  Hero, sometimes reckoned Thracian; she fears being thought an unequal match.