Troy

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.12 Pergamum

  The citadel of Troy, taken after a ten-year siege; the analogy for the lover's bloodless 'conquest' of Corinna.

• The Art of Love §1.11 Ilium

  Troy; the simile of the wooden horse marks the moment a guard is down—the lady's mind open to be taken.

• The Art of Love §2.6 Troy

  The city of the Trojan War, drawn in the sand and then washed away by a wave.

• The Heroides §1 Troy

  The great city of the Troad in northwest Asia Minor, besieged ten years by the Greeks; also called Ilium and, by its citadel, Pergamum.

• The Heroides §1 Pergamum

  The citadel of Troy, here used for the city as a whole; the returning soldier sketches its map in spilled wine.

• The Heroides §1 Ilium

  Another name for Troy, from Ilus its founder.

• The Heroides §3 Pergama

  The citadel of Troy; here the enemy stronghold where Achilles should seek his slaughter.

• The Heroides §7 Pergamum

  The citadel of Troy, now fallen; hardly worth, Dido says, the toil of seeking a second time.

• The Heroides §7 Ilium

  Troy; Dido bids Aeneas transplant it more happily into a Tyrian (Carthaginian) city.

• The Heroides §8 Troy

  Fallen Troy, from whose conquest Pyrrhus returned to claim Hermione as a 'gift.'

• The Heroides §13 the walls of Ilium

  The walls of Troy, beneath which Protesilaus must fight.

• The Heroides §13 Ilium

  Troy, whose very name Laodamia dreads.

• The Heroides §16 Dardania

  Troy, the realm of the Dardanian line, seen by Paris from Ida.

• The Heroides §16 Ilium

  Troy, whose towered walls were built to the music of Apollo's lyre.

• The Heroides §16 Troy

  The city that will welcome Helen with offerings.

• The Heroides §17 Pergamum

  The citadel of Troy, the 'praised' city Paris would have Helen see.

• The Heroides §17 Troy

  Paris's own city, where Helen fears the censure of Priam's house.

• The Heroides §17 the Ilian harbors

  Troy's harbors; any newcomer there would make Paris fear for Helen's faith.

• The Heroides §17 the wealth of Ilium

  The riches of Troy that Paris promises, which Helen says cannot hold her.

• The Heroides §17 Ilium

  Troy, doomed by prophecy to burn — a fear that stays Helen.

• The Heroides §21 the Trojan soil

  The plain of Troy where Penthesilea fought and fell.

• The Festivals §11 Troy

  Troy (Ilium, Pergama); though destroyed, it rises again in Rome — the Dardanian/Neptunian city of Aeneas.

• Metamorphoses §6.128 Ilion

  The great city of the Troad in Asia Minor, here named as Ilion, Antigone's homeland.

• Metamorphoses §12.351 Troy

  The city of Priam (also Ilium, Pergamum), besieged by the Greeks.

• Metamorphoses §13.392 overthrow mighty Troy

  Troy (Ilium), the besieged Phrygian city.

• Metamorphoses §13.393 towers of Ilium

  Troy (Ilium), entered by Ulysses on his embassy.

• Metamorphoses §15.493 so Troy was great

  Troy, once mighty, now only ruins and ancestral tombs.

• Metamorphoses §15.494 carry Pergama

  Pergama, the citadel of Troy, which Aeneas is to carry away as his city's seed.

• The Cure for Love §2 Troy

  The city of Priam in the Troad; its fall is the great theme of Greek epic. Latin 'Pergama' is the Trojan citadel.

• Sorrows §1.10 Hector's city

  Troy (Ilium), Hector's city, on the Asian shore near the ship's course.