Reading notes

• The Aeneid §2.788 mother of the gods

  Cybele, the Great Mother of the gods, who keeps Creusa's shade upon the Trojan shore.

• The Aeneid §3.111 Mother who haunts Cybelus

  Cybele, the Great Mother, worshipped on Cretan Cybelus with the Corybantes' cymbals and her lion-drawn car.

• The Aeneid §6.784 Berecyntian Mother

  Cybele, the tower-crowned Mother of the Gods, to whom Rome's brood of heroes is likened.

• The Aeneid §9.82 the Berecyntian

  Cybele, the Great Mother (Berecyntian, of Mt Ida), whose sacred pines became Aeneas' ships.

• The Aeneid §10.221 Cybele

  Cybele, the Great Mother, who turned the burned ships into the sea-nymphs who now meet Aeneas.

• The Aeneid §11.768 Cybele

  The Great Mother; Chloreus is her priest, splendid in Phrygian arms.

• The Georgics §4.64 the Mother's cymbals

  Cybele, the Great Mother, whose clashing cymbals are used to settle a swarm; her Curetes once hid the infant Jove.