Tyre

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §2.15 Tyrian

  Tyre in Phoenicia, source of the costly purple dye; 'Tyrian robes' are luxury garments.

• The Heroides §7 a Tyrian city

  Carthage, the colony of Phoenician Tyre, which Dido offers Aeneas to rule.

• The Heroides §18 Tyre

  The Phoenician city whose sailors steered by the lesser Bear.

• Cosmetics for the Female Face §1 Tyrian

  Tyre, the Phoenician city famed for its purple dye; "the Tyrian cauldron" is the vat in which wool was steeped to that costly color.

• Metamorphoses §3.39 the Tyrian race

  Tyre, the great Phoenician city; Cadmus's companions are 'Tyrians' or Phoenicians.

• Metamorphoses §3.57 set here your Tyre

  Tyre, the Phoenician mother-city the Theban elders left to settle in Greece.

• Metamorphoses §15.484 Phoenician Tyre

  The Phoenician city, once an island, later joined to the shore.

• The Cure for Love §22 Tyrian purple

  The famous crimson-purple dye of Tyre in Phoenicia, the most prized of ancient colors.