Io

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.3 Io

  Argive girl loved by Jupiter and changed to a heifer; her fame in song proves that poetry immortalizes its subject.

• The Art of Love §1.10 now Io

  Girl loved by Jupiter and turned into a heifer; Pasiphae envies her too, 'borne by a bull.'

• The Heroides §14 Daughter of Inachus

  Io, daughter of the river Inachus, transformed into a heifer and driven wandering by Juno's wrath.

• The Heroides §14 the rival

  Io, Jupiter's beloved and Juno's hated rival, restored at the Nile.

• The Heroides §14 the new heifer

  Io in her transformed shape, terrified at her own lowing and altered body.

• The Festivals §5.14 Pharian heifer

  Io, the Argive girl turned to a cow and at last made the Egyptian (Pharian) goddess Isis.

• Metamorphoses §1.10 Io

  Argive princess, daughter of Inachus, loved by Jupiter and changed into a heifer to hide her from Juno.

• Metamorphoses §1.11 Phoroneus's daughter

  Io, here named for her descent from Phoroneus, the first king of Argos; her sufferings move Jupiter to act.

• Metamorphoses §2.26 the Argive daughter of Phoroneus

  Io, descendant of Phoroneus of Argos, whom Jupiter restored from heifer to woman (Book 1).