Diana

Reading notes

• The Art of Poetry §14-23 Diana

  Virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; her grove and altar are Horace's example of a stock descriptive set-piece.

• The Secular Hymn §1-4 Diana

  Virgin goddess of the woodlands, the hunt, and the moon; sister of Apollo and co-dedicatee of the hymn, addressed by the girls of the chorus.

• The Odes §1.12 virgin foe of savage

  Diana the huntress, 'foe of savage beasts.'

• The Odes §1.21 Diana

  Goddess of the hunt and the moon, sung by the maidens with her twin and mother.

• The Odes §2.12 Diana's

  The goddess on whose 'crowded holy day' Licymnia dances with the gleaming girls.

• The Odes §3.4 Diana

  The 'unstained' goddess who slew Orion for his assault.

• The Odes §3.22 virgin

  Diana, threefold goddess of mountains and groves and childbirth, to whom the pine is vowed.

• The Odes §3.28 Cynthia

  Diana, named from Mount Cynthus, with 'swift arrows.'

• The Odes §4.6 Delian goddess

  Diana, who checks the lynxes and stags, the chorus's guardian.

• The Odes §4.7 Diana

  Who cannot free chaste Hippolytus 'from the infernal darkness.'

• The Epodes §5 Diana

  Goddess of the moon, night, and magic, invoked by Canidia as ruler of the silence in which the rites are worked.