Pasiphae

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §1.10 Pasiphae

  Wife of Minos who, cursed with lust for a bull, bore the Minotaur: Ovid's central proof of female desire.

• The Art of Love §2.2 the mother's crime

  Pasiphae, wife of Minos, whose unnatural union with a bull produced the Minotaur.

• The Heroides §4 Pasiphae

  Phaedra's mother, wife of Minos, who conceived the Minotaur by a bull.

• The Heroides §10 the daughter of Phoebus

  Pasiphae, Ariadne's mother and daughter of the Sun (Phoebus); proof of her royal and divine descent.

• Metamorphoses §8.194 Pasiphae

  Minos's wife, who by means of a wooden cow mated with a bull and bore the Minotaur.

• Metamorphoses §9.281 the daughter of the Sun

  Pasiphae, wife of Minos, whose love for a bull (gratified by Daedalus's wooden cow) bore the Minotaur; Iphis's exemplum of monstrous passion.

• The Cure for Love §2 Pasiphaë

  Wife of Minos, cursed with passion for a bull, mother of the Minotaur; the emblem of monstrous, curable desire.