Witenwasserenstock

    The Witenwasserenstock (see Media (“Witenwasserenstock” 2017)) is a peak between the Swiss cantons of Valais and Uri, located in the Lepontine Alps. Close to the summit lies the tripoint border between the cantons of Valais, Uri and Ticino and the triple watershed of the Rhine, Po and Rhône basins . . . (Read More). The mighty goddess Hera could have been perched on the Witenwasserenstock, itself a mighty peak (3,082 m), when she descended (line 640) to warn the Argonauts about venturing further North and the river systems that seems to pass close to it make it feasible for the Argonauts to find their way across Middle Europe; see the notes ad loc. for more.

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    Heliades in Arbores

      “Heliades in Arbores.” Johannes Spreng, Meta- morphoses Ovidii, 1563. Courtesy of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

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      Summer storms in the Adriatic

        O Tempestates! Some Storms in Ancient Poetry

        28.10.2012 /  / LATIN LITERATURE

         

        • Pacuvius Teucer 350-365 W.
        • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.1-21 — how it is pleasant to see others in trouble:
        • Horace, Odes 3.29: The Aegean Storm
        • Vergil, Georgics 1.311-37
        • Vergil, Aeneid 1.81-123 — The Trojans, in sight of their new home in Italy, are driven to Carthage (and trouble).
        • Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.474-572 — Ceyx & the Tempest.
        • Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 560-677 — description of the storm on the Adriatic sea during Caesar’s attempted crossing.
        • Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica 1.574-692 — will the Argonauts be drowned before their adventure has scarcely begun?
        • Silius Italicus, Punica 17. 201-90 — Hannibal, the Anti-Aeneas, sails from Italy to Africa.
        • Statius, Thebaid 1.336-382 — a rare description of a storm on land, symbolizes the internal turmoil of Polyneices on the eve of civil war.
        • Juvenal, Satire 12.1-82 — the merchant Catullus attempts to survive a storm.
        • Aldhelm, Quando profectus fueram / A Storm in Devon

        See also: https://bit.ly/3xWRY0V

         

         

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