place
Mount Ida
Ida
Wooded mountain near Troy (and a second in Crete); its cedars and slopes are touchstones of natural color and the Trojan landscape.
Reading notes
- The Loves §1.14 Ida
The wooded mountain near Troy; its stripped cedar gives the simile for the hair's blend of dark and gold.
- The Art of Love §1.10 wooded Ida
Mountain near Troy (and a namesake in Crete); here the Cretan Ida, haunt of Pasiphae's white bull.
- The Heroides §4 the Idaean hill
Mount Ida, where the orgiastic drum-beating rites (of Cybele and Bacchus) were performed.
- The Heroides §5 the ridges of Ida
Mount Ida above Troy, the woodland home of Oenone and the herdsman Paris.
- The Heroides §5 Ida
The mountain above Troy that Oenone filled with her wailing; the scene of her grief.
- The Heroides §13 Ida
The mountain above Troy, among the names Laodamia fears.
- The Heroides §16 Ida
The mountain above Troy where Paris was reared and judged the goddesses.
- The Heroides §17 Ida
The Trojan mountain where the three goddesses appeared to Paris.
- The Festivals §4.proem Phrygian Ida
The mountain near Troy, home of Solimus and sacred to the Magna Mater.
- The Festivals §5.1 Cretan Ida
The mountain of Crete (and of Phrygia); on Cretan Ida the infant Jupiter was hidden.
- The Festivals §6.proem Ida
The mountain of Crete (and of Phrygia); on Cretan Ida the infant Jupiter was hidden.
- Metamorphoses §12.378 Ide
Mount Ida, the type of a great mountain shaken by an earthquake.