Delos

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §2.4 Delos

  The sacred island, birthplace of Apollo, 'dear to the Clarian god.'

• The Heroides §20 Delos

  The sacred island of Apollo and Diana, scene of the oath and of the promised festival.

• The Heroides §21 Delos

  The sacred island where Cydippe took the fatal oath; once a floating island, birthplace of Apollo and Diana.

• Letters from the Black Sea §4.14 the Delian land

  Delos, the floating island that alone gave the wandering Latona a place to bear her children; Ovid likens grateful Tomis to it as a faithful refuge.

• Metamorphoses §3.59 making for Delos

  Delos, the sacred Aegean island, Acoetes' intended destination.

• Metamorphoses §8.200 Delos

  The small Cycladic island, birthplace of Apollo and Diana.

• Metamorphoses §13.415 Apollonian city

  Delos, the island sacred to Apollo, where Aeneas landed.

• Metamorphoses §15.500 Delos and Crete

  Apollo and Diana's island, weighed as a home for Hippolytus.