Scythia

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.16 Scythia

  The cold barbarian lands north of the Black Sea; without his mistress, home itself feels like Scythia.

• The Heroides §6 Scythia

  The wild lands north of the Black Sea, byword for barbarism, near Medea's Colchis.

• The Heroides §12 Scythia

  The cold barbarous north bordering Colchis, the limit of Aeetes' realm.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.1 Scythian bow

  Scythia, the steppe lands north and east of the Black Sea, a shorthand for the armed barbarian world hemming in Tomis; Ovid prays only for a post out of bowshot.

• Metamorphoses §1.2 Scythia

  The cold lands of the far north, the quarter of Boreas.

• Metamorphoses §8.232 Scythia

  Scythia, the cold barren northern land where Hunger dwells.

• Metamorphoses §10.314 Scythian

  Scythia, the far north, proverbial for swift archers; 'a Scythian arrow' figures Atalanta's speed.

• Sorrows §1.3 Scythia

  Scythia: the wild far north and northeast, used broadly by Ovid for the lands of his exile.