place
Ascra
Boeotian village, home of Hesiod, who was called to poetry by the Muses while herding on Helicon.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §1.1 Ascra
Boeotian village, home of Hesiod, who was called to poetry by the Muses while herding nearby.
- The Art of Love §2.1 Ascra
Hesiod's home village in Boeotia; 'the old men of Ascra and Maeonia' are Hesiod and Homer, surpassed (the lover says) by Ovid.
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.14 her own Ascra
Ascra in Boeotia, the bleak village of the poet Hesiod, who abused his own birthplace; Ovid's precedent for cursing a place without hating its people.