Athens

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §1.6 the Cecropian ships

  Athens (named for its legendary king Cecrops); the other fleet in the staged battle.

• The Heroides §2 Attic

  Of Attica/Athens; Demophoon's homeland, so 'Attic ships' are his.

• The Heroides §2 Athens

  Chief city of Attica, Demophoon's 'learned' home.

• The Heroides §10 land of Cecrops

  Athens, named from its early king Cecrops; punished with the tribute exacted for Androgeos's death.

• Metamorphoses §6.128 Cecropian

  The chief city of Attica, called Cecropian after its founder Cecrops; its patron-contest between Athena and Poseidon is the subject of Pallas's web.

• Metamorphoses §8.197 Attic blood

  Athens (Actaean = Attic), which paid Minos a tribute of youths and maidens to feed the Minotaur.

• Metamorphoses §8.218 Erechthean citadel of Tritonis

  Athens, citadel of the legendary king Erechtheus and of Tritonian Minerva.

• Metamorphoses §15.493 Pandion's Athens

  The city of Cecrops and Pandion, now scarcely a name.

• Sorrows §1.2 Athens

  Athens, the seat of learning Ovid had visited in youth, set against the barbarous Pontus.