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Name: Vatican Mythographers Date: 10th century CE Region: Unknown Citation: Vatican Mythographers 1.6 |
Sylvanus was the god of the forest. He loved a youth named Cyparissus who had a pet doe. When Sylvanus unintentionally killed it, Cyparissus died of grief. Silvanus transformed him into a cypress tree and is said to carry its branches as a mourning token
Sylvanus deus est silvarum. Hic amavit puerum Cyparissum nomine qui habebat mansuetissimam cervam. Hanc cum Silvanus nescius occidisset, puer extinctus est dolore. Quem amator deus in cypressum arborem nominis eius convertit quam pro solatio portare dicitur.
Vatican Mythographers [10th century CE?] Little is known about the author or
origin of the collection of myths known as the Vatican Mythographers, but the
work’s first editor Angelo Mai found the collection on a manuscript dating back
to the 10th century CE. This volume is a collection of three different
mythographers who have assembled various Greco-Roman myths; although many of
these myths are basic summaries in Latin, some of them are either analyzed as
allegories or compared to Christian thought.
