Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.228 Venus

  Goddess of love; her gifts and her 'bonds' recur (Eclogues 3, 7, 8, 10).

• The Aeneid §2.590 fostering mother

  Venus, goddess of love and mother of Aeneas; she appears to reveal the gods destroying Troy and sends him to Anchises.

• The Aeneid §3.19 daughter of Dione

  Venus, mother of Aeneas, called 'daughter of Dione.'

• The Aeneid §4.33 Venus

  Goddess of love, mother of Aeneas; with Juno she contrives the union of Dido and Aeneas.

• The Aeneid §8.370 Venus

  Goddess of love, mother of Aeneas, who begs new arms for her son from her husband Vulcan.

• The Aeneid §9.135 Venus

  Goddess of love and mother of Aeneas; Turnus claims fate owes her enough.

• The Aeneid §10.16 Venus

  Goddess of love, mother of Aeneas, who pleads for the besieged Trojans.

• The Aeneid §11.277 Venus

  Venus, whose hand Diomedes wounded at Troy; he attributes his sufferings to that sacrilege.

• The Aeneid §12.411 Venus

  Goddess and mother of Aeneas, who secretly heals his wound with dittany from Cretan Ida.

• The Eclogues §7.62 Venus

  Goddess of love; her gifts and her 'bonds' recur (Eclogues 3, 7, 8, 10).

• The Georgics §3.267 Venus

  Goddess of love and desire, the universal force that drives all creatures to frenzy.