place
Maeonia
also: Lydia
An old name for Lydia in Asia Minor; the homeland of the helmsman Acoetes.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.3 Maeonian song
Maeonia (Lydia), reputed homeland of Homer; 'Maeonian song' is epic, which Cupid kept Ovid from attempting, holding him to love-elegy.
- Metamorphoses §3.59 my country Maeonia
Maeonia, the old name for Lydia in Asia Minor, Acoetes' homeland.