person
Cydippe
A girl of Delos bound by an unwitting oath to Acontius; she falls ill whenever about to wed another. The addressee.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §1.13 Cydippe
Girl tricked into a binding oath by a message inscribed on an apple (by Acontius), 'caught by her own words.'
- The Heroides §20 Cydippe
A noble girl of Delos whom Acontius trapped into an oath of marriage; she sickens whenever she would wed another. The addressee.
- The Heroides §21 Cydippe
The speaker names herself, caught 'by an apple' like Atalanta.
- The Cure for Love §12 Cydippe
The heroine of Callimachus's elegiac tale of Acontius and Cydippe; matter unfit for Homer's grand manner.