Abstract
This essay presents a cosmographic analysis of Ovid’s mythology in both Ars am. 2.21–96 and Met. 8.174–235. Daedalus’ flying instruction me duce carpe viam! at 8.208 = Ars am. 2.57–58 appears to deal with the in-tandem Morning Rising of Daedalus alias the single star Protrygeter/Vindemitor and Icarus alias the single star Arcturus, which heralds the grape harvest in September. Icarus is not supposed to impersonate his namesake Icarus pater Erigones, the pioneer winegrower from Attica who was catasterized into the constellation Boötes. Nevertheless the aviator imitates the winegrower’s Evening Setting = Boötes’ συγκατάδυσις (with συν-= “together with the Sun/ vicino sole/ Deo propiore” at Ars am. 2.59–60 and 85), thus causing the wax to liquescere/molliri/φάεος κορέσασθαι at Met. 8.225–226 in the season when ἠελίοιο κατερχομένοιο δύηται <Βοώτης> (Aratus, Phaen. 582–585).
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