Mount Pelion

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.1 Pelion

  Thessalian mountain the Giants piled on Olympus (with Ossa) to scale heaven.

• The Art of Love §1.21 Pelian spear

  Mount Pelion in Thessaly, source of the ash for Achilles' great spear.

• The Heroides §3 the Pelian spear

  Achilles' great ash spear, cut on Mount Pelion; Briseis prays it may pierce Hector.

• The Festivals §2-4 Pelion's peak

  Mt Pelion in Thessaly, heaped by the giants in their assault on heaven.

• The Festivals §5.3 Pelion

  The Thessalian (Haemonian) mountain where Chiron's cave stood.

• Metamorphoses §1.4 Pelion

  Thessalian mountain the Giants heaped on Ossa to climb to heaven.

• Metamorphoses §12.355 Pelian spear

  The Thessalian mountain that gave Achilles's ash spear ('the Pelian spear').