Four Tragedies And Octavia (2010)
Four Tragedies And Octavia
“Phaedra’s mother Pasiphae was a daugher of the Sun.
1. Cf. Appendix II, 5.
2. The prison, now empty, which contained the Minotaur.
1. When he served as herdsman to King Admetus (cf. Euripides, Alcestis).
2. The disguises of Jupiter: the swan which loved Leda – the bull which carried Europa into the sea (Neptune’s province).
3. The Moon, descending to earth for love of Endymion.
1. Hercules, sentenced to serve at women’s tasks for Omphale, queen of Lydia (cf. Ovid, Heroides, IX).
1. If this is t...he meaning of Lucae boves, animals used by Pyrrhus in Lucania in his war against the Romans.
1. Chinese.
2. Moon.
1. As Endymion; cf. above, 309.
1. Compare this speech with similar thoughts in Thyestes, 446 ff. It may remind us also of Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, ii. 5.
1. The legend of the ages of man, a commonplace of Latin poetry, appears again in Octavia, 397 ff.
1. The Amazons were said to destroy all their male children.
1. Curat leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent. The Latin is quoted in The Return from Parnassus (anon.MoreLess
1. Cf. Appendix II, 5.
2. The prison, now empty, which contained the Minotaur.
1. When he served as herdsman to King Admetus (cf. Euripides, Alcestis).
2. The disguises of Jupiter: the swan which loved Leda – the bull which carried Europa into the sea (Neptune’s province).
3. The Moon, descending to earth for love of Endymion.
1. Hercules, sentenced to serve at women’s tasks for Omphale, queen of Lydia (cf. Ovid, Heroides, IX).
1. If this is t...he meaning of Lucae boves, animals used by Pyrrhus in Lucania in his war against the Romans.
1. Chinese.
2. Moon.
1. As Endymion; cf. above, 309.
1. Compare this speech with similar thoughts in Thyestes, 446 ff. It may remind us also of Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, ii. 5.
1. The legend of the ages of man, a commonplace of Latin poetry, appears again in Octavia, 397 ff.
1. The Amazons were said to destroy all their male children.
1. Curat leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent. The Latin is quoted in The Return from Parnassus (anon.MoreLess
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