Ilia

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.2 Ilia

  Rhea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus, taken as bride by the Tiber; her grief licenses the flood.

• The Odes §3.3 Trojan priestess

  Ilia (Rhea Silvia), the Vestal mother of Romulus, Juno's 'hated grandson's' bearer.

• The Odes §3.9 Ilia

  The Vestal mother of Romulus, byword of Roman fame ('Roman Ilia').

• The Odes §4.8 Ilia

  Mother of Romulus; without the bard's voice his merits would lie silent.

• The Satires §1.2 she is an Ilia

  Ilia (Rhea Silvia), mother of Romulus by Mars: a grand legendary name Horace bestows on an ordinary girl to mock the lover's self-flattering fancy.