place
Babylon
Great city of Mesopotamia, home of Pyramus and Thisbe, walled by Semiramis.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.4 Babylon
Babylon, byword for scorching heat; one term in a string of adynata (impossibilities) by which Ovid measures the unthinkable lapse of Atticus's memory.
- Metamorphoses §4.66 Babylonian
Babylon, the great Mesopotamian city walled in brick by Semiramis; setting of the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe.