Taenarus

Reading notes

• The Heroides §8 the Taenarian woman

  Helen, of Taenarus in Laconia, snatched across the sea by Paris.

• The Heroides §16 the Taenarian land

  Laconia (from Cape Taenarus), Helen's country, the goal of Paris's voyage.

• The Heroides §16 Taenarian earth

  Laconian soil; Paris vows to win Helen or die an exile there.

• The Heroides §17 the Taenarian shore

  Laconia (Cape Taenarus), Helen's homeland, whose hospitality Paris has abused.

• The Festivals §4.12 Taenarian valley

  The Laconian cape with its cave-entrance to the underworld, where Ceres asks to be received.

• Metamorphoses §10.286 Taenarian

  Taenarus, the southern cape of Laconia, whose cave was thought a gate to the underworld.