CLAS104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Acontius, Cydippe, Heroides
22 Apr 2016
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Chapter 25 greek mythology in the roman world. Poetry of ovid - most important source for the transmission of greek mythology. Amores contained many allusions to myths and legends, fasti, heroides, Two cities on the shores of the hellespont: sestos (european side) and abydos (asiatic side) Leander (from abydos) loved hero (priestess of aphrodite at sestos) Leander would swim the strait each night to visit her one night, a storm put out the light that she placed in a tower to guide him, he drowns. Hero sees his body washed up on the shore that she fell from the tower and died. One day, cydippe picks up an inscribed apple left by acontius that read i swear before. She read it out loud and eventually married acontius. Pomona goddess of fruit that can be picked from trees. Vertumnus etruscan god whose name means changer or turner appeared disguised as an old woman and told pomona to marry vertumnus (himself)
