| Title: | Abaster |
| Original Title: | Abaster |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 10 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Mark K. Jensen [Pacific Lutheran University] |
| Subject terms: |
Metamorphosis
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Abaster." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2018. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.525>. Trans. of "Abaster," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Abaster." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.525 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Abaster," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:10 (Paris, 1751). |
Abaster, ( Metamorphoses ) one of the three horses of Pluto’s chariot; he’s the black one. [1] See Metheus and Nonius.
1. The horses play a supporting role in Pluto’s rape of Persephone (also known as Prosperine, Kore, or Cora), which is recounted in the Metamorphoses, V, 332-424, though Ovid, alluded to here, does not name the horses individually. According to other accounts, Pluto, or Hades, has four horses and all are black.