Phoebus

Reading notes

• Agamemnon §37 circuit of Phoebus

  Apollo as the sun-god; a 'circuit of Phoebus' is a year, so the 'tenth circuit' marks the war's tenth year.

• The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §2 Phoebus

  Phoebus Apollo as the sun-god; the elaborate astronomy of his shortening course says only that it was an October afternoon.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §20.122.12 Phoebus

  Apollo as the sun-god; he opens the dawn verses Seneca quotes from Montanus.

• Hercules on Oeta §1 both houses of Phoebus

  Phoebus is the sun-god; his 'two houses' are the regions of sunrise and sunset, i.e. the whole span of the earth east to west.

• Medea §75 he who moves the tripods

  Apollo (Phoebus), god of the Delphic oracle, whose priestess prophesied from a tripod.

• Medea §511 the grandsons of Phoebus

  Medea's children descend, through her, from the Sun (here called Phoebus); she will not see them mixed with the line of Sisyphus.

• Octavia §387 Phoebus

  Phoebus (the Sun), whose chariot and sphere Seneca contemplated in his studies of the heavens.

• Oedipus §1 Phoebus

  Apollo, god of prophecy, light, and plague; his oracle drives the action.

• Oedipus §247 twelve signs

  The twelve signs of the zodiac, trodden by the Sun in his yearly course.

• Oedipus §1042 lying Phoebus

  Apollo, whose oracle proved true yet whom Oedipus calls a liar, having 'outdone' the doom foretold.

• Phaedra §184 Phoebus

  Apollo the archer-god; even he is pierced by a surer arrow, Cupid's.

• Phaedra §296 Phoebus, herdsman of a Thessalian flock

  Apollo, who served as herdsman to Admetus in Thessaly; love humbled even him.

• Phaedra §646 my Phoebus

  Phoebus the Sun, Phaedra's divine ancestor, whose beauty she also sees in Hippolytus.

• The Phoenician Women §80 Phoebus

  Apollo as the sun-god; 'the lamp of Phoebus' is the sun, here imagined bringing on night by an unnatural reversal.

• Thyestes §749 long-suffering Phoebus

  Phoebus the Sun-god, who in the myth turned back his chariot in horror at the crime.

• The Trojan Women §28 Phoebus

  Apollo as sun-god and lord of prophecy; Cassandra is his doomed priestess.