Minerva

Reading notes

• The Art of Poetry §379-390 Minerva's

  Goddess of wisdom and craft; to do anything 'against Minerva's will' (invita Minerva) is to work against one's natural gift.

• The Odes §1.6 Pallas

  Minerva (Pallas Athena), by whose aid Diomedes was made 'equal to the gods.'

• The Odes §1.7 virgin Pallas

  Minerva, virgin patroness of Athens, whose city others celebrate 'in unbroken song.'

• The Odes §1.12 Pallas

  Minerva, 'bold in battle,' who holds the honors nearest to Jupiter.

• The Odes §1.15 Pallas

  Minerva, readying helmet, aegis, chariot, and fury against Troy.

• The Odes §3.3 Minerva

  With Juno, set against Troy ever since Paris's judgment and Laomedon's fraud.

• The Odes §3.4 Pallas

  Her 'ringing aegis' withstands the charging Giants.

• The Odes §3.12 Minerva

  Goddess of weaving; love steals away 'the zeal of busy Minerva.'

• The Odes §4.6 Minerva

  The wooden horse 'feigned' her rites; Achilles would have spared no Trojan.

• The Epodes §10 Pallas

  Pallas Athena (Minerva), who wrecked the Greek fleet returning from Troy to punish the sacrilege of Ajax.

• The Satires §2.2 homespun wit

  Renders the Latin idiom 'crassa Minerva' ('with thick Minerva,' the goddess of skill); it means untutored, rough-and-ready good sense rather than schooled learning.