Gargara

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Gargara is a city of the Troad, near Mount Ida. A titular see in the province of Asia, suffragan of Ephesus.[1]

[edit] 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 convetional exemplar of agricultural fecundity. In the Saturnalia, Macrobius discusses Vergil's use of Gargara.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gargara - Catholic Encyclopedia article
  2. ^ Vergil, Georgics 1.123, 3.269.
  3. ^ Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.57.
  4. ^ Seneca, Phoenissae 608.
  5. ^ Sidonius, Carmina 7.147 and 22.174.
  6. ^ Macrobius, Saturnalia 5.20.



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