Hecuba Tiger Queen

Latin Poetry Podcast by Latin Poetry Podcast

Apr 1, 202011:52Education

Ovid on the Metamorphoses compares Hecuba to a lioness, not a tigress, but as I discuss based on Pliny and Valerius Flaccus, the two animals were grouped together in the Roman mind under the heading of savage mothers who...

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