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Ariadne's Fears from Sea and Sky (Ovid, Heroides 10.88. and 95–8)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ariane Hewig
Ariane Hewig
Affiliation:
Keble College, Oxford/University of Freiburg
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Extract

In Ovid, Heroides 10.79ff. Ariadne starts to consider various dangers which to her mind threaten her life as that of any deserted woman (80). She lists some of these dangers in the following catalogue (83–8):

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , December 1991 , pp. 554 - 556
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1991

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References

1 This seems to be the best emendation of this line; see Palmer's apparatus criticus (Palmer, A., P. Ovidii Nasonis Heroides [Oxford, 1898], ad loc).Google Scholar

2 Palmer, op. cit. (n. 1), comm. ad loc; for the whole passage, see, apart from Palmer's commentary, Schmitz-Cronenbroeck, W., Die Anfänge der Heroiden des Ovid (diss. Köln, 1537), p. 25Google Scholar; Peters, G., Observationes ad P. Ovidii Nasonis Heroidum Epistulas (diss. Leipzig, 1882), pp. 28–30.Google Scholar

3 For example Peters, op. cit. (n. 2), deletes 88, 93–5 and establishes the sequence 85–7, 96–8, 89–92; Schmitz-Cronenbroeck, op. cit. (n. 2), p. 25, ejects 86–95; Palmer, op. cit. (n. 2), inclines to eject 89–96.

4 Birt, Th., De Halieuticis Ovidio Poetae falso adscriptis (Berlin, 1878), p. 40.Google Scholar

5 Gilbert, J. in Jb der Fürsten- u. Landesschule St. Afra in Meissen, 1896, p. 7.Google Scholar

6 Arist. H.A. 2.13.9; cf. also Opp. H. 1.182, 2.462–6.

7 Plin. N.H. 32.15; cf. also N.H. 9.21, Ov. Hal. 97.

8 Encyclopaedia Britannica11 24.274.