Gargara is a city of the Troad, near Mount Ida. A titular see in the province of Asia, suffragan of Ephesus.[1]
Gargara in literature
The Roman poet Vergil twice mentions the fertility of Gargara in the Georgics.[2] Ovid,[3] Seneca,[4] and Sidonius Apollinaris[5] follow Vergil and Gargara becomes a conventional exemplar of agricultural fecundity. In the Saturnalia, Macrobius discusses Vergil's use of Gargara.[6]
References
- ^ Gargara - Catholic Encyclopedia article
- ^ Vergil, Georgics 1.123, 3.269.
- ^ Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.57.
- ^ Seneca, Phoenissae 608.
- ^ Sidonius, Carmina 7.147 and 22.174.
- ^ Macrobius, Saturnalia 5.20.
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