Reading notes

• The Aeneid §6.794 Saturn

  The old god whose reign over Latium was the first golden age, to be renewed by Augustus.

• The Aeneid §8.319 Saturn

  Saturn, who fled Jove to Latium and ruled the Golden Age, giving the untaught race laws.

• The Aeneid §11.252 kingdoms of Saturn

  Saturn, whose 'kingdoms' are old Italy; Diomedes calls the Italians fortunate to live there.

• The Eclogues §4.6 Saturn

  The god of the mythical golden age; his returning 'reign of Saturn' frames the prophecy of Eclogue 4 (and the cosmogony of Eclogue 6).

• The Georgics §2.173 Saturnian land

  Italy, named for Saturn, who reigned there in the golden age; hailed as 'great mother of harvests.'