Phyllis

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.18 Phyllis

  Thracian princess abandoned by Demophoon, who hanged herself; a Heroides letter-writer.

• The Art of Love §2.17 Phyllis

  The Thracian princess who hanged herself when Demophoon failed to return.

• The Heroides §2 Phyllis of Rhodope

  A Thracian princess who sheltered and married Demophoon; the speaker of this letter, abandoned when he sailed home and failed to return. Rhodope is a Thracian mountain range.

• The Cure for Love §2 Phyllis

  Thracian princess who hanged herself when Demophoon failed to return; Ovid says his counsel would have saved her.

• The Cure for Love §18 Sithonian girl

  Phyllis, the Thracian (Sithonian) princess who hanged herself when Demophoön did not return.

• Sorrows §2.1 Phyllis

  A pastoral love-name from Virgil's Eclogues, with which the young Virgil 'played' before the epic.