Thrace

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.7 Sithonian

  Sithonia is a district of Thrace, a byword for snow and cold.

• The Art of Love §2.26 Thrace

  The wild northern land, home of Mars, whither he fled in shame.

• The Heroides §1 Thracian

  Of Thrace, northeast of Greece; the night-camp of Rhesus that Ulysses infiltrated.

• The Heroides §3 the Thracian lyre

  The lyre, called Thracian from Orpheus and the music of Thrace; emblem of soft pursuits Briseis taunts Achilles with.

• The Heroides §9 the Thracian doors

  The house of Diomedes in Thrace, hung with the faces of his murdered guests.

• Letters from the Black Sea §4.5 icy Thrace

  Thrace, the cold land north of the Aegean, which Ovid's verse-letter must cross on its long winter road from Tomis to Rome.

• Metamorphoses §6.143 Thracian

  The wild region north of the Aegean, home of Tereus; its men were proverbial among the Greeks for savagery.

• Metamorphoses §10.289 Thrace

  Thrace, Orpheus's land, whose peoples he teaches the love of boys.