Literature
- Catullus refers to Tempe in Catullus 64 lines 285-286.
- Horace refers to Tempe in Ode I.7.
- Vergil refers to Tempe in Georgics 4.317.
- Ovid refers to Tempe in Metamorphoses I.568 et seq. in an ekphrasis loci.
- Strabo refers to Tempe in his Geographica, Book 9.
- Edmund Spenser refers to Tempe in The Fairie Queene in Book 2, Canto XII, stanza lii.
- Percy Shelley refers to Tempe in Hymn Of Pan.
- John Keats refers to Tempe in Ode on a Grecian Urn.
- Ruskin refers to Tempe in his open letters concerning the railway.
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