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OF GODS AND MEN

TITLE PAGE

OF GODS
AND MEN

100 STORIES
FROM ANCIENT GREECE & ROME

Selected and introduced by

Daisy Dunn

AN APOLLO BOOK

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This is an Apollo book, first published in the UK in 2019 by Head of Zeus Ltd

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This is an anthology of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in each story are either products of each author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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DEDICATION

For Lucy Purcell

CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

1. Hesiod, Theogony, The Birth of Love

2. Epic Cycle, Cypria, The Origins of the Trojan War

3. Homer, Iliad, Book III, The Truce

4. Homer, Iliad, Book XXII, Hector versus Achilles

5. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica, Book III, The Death of Achilles

6. Homer, Odyssey, Book IX, The Cyclops

7. Homer, Odyssey, Book VIII, The Song of Demodocus

8. Homer, Odyssey, Book XXIII, And So To Bed

9. Hesiod, Theogony & Works and Days, Prometheus and Pandora

10. Sappho, ‘Fragment 16’, Whatever One Loves

11. Anon., Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds

12. Anon., The Life of Aesop, The Life of Aaesop

13. Anon., Battle of Frogs and Mice, The Battle of the Frogs and Mice

14. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, The Vengeance of Clytemnestra

15. Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Educating Cyrus

16. Herodotus, Histories, Book IV, Darius and the Scythians

17. Herodotus, Histories, Book VII, Xerxes’ Choice

18. Aeschylus, Persians, The Fall of the Barbarians

19. Aelian, Various Histories, XII, The Fairest of them All

20. Ctesias, Indica, A Beast of India

21. Euripides, Bacchae, The Ecstasy

22. Euripides, Hippolytus, Hippolytus and his Horses

23. Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Euripides the Woman-hater

24. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus Learns the Truth

25. Sophocles, Antigone, One Girl versus the Law

26. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, The Plague at Athens

27. Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, The Murder of Eratosthenes

28. Plato, Symposium, The Power of Love

29. Plato, Republic, The Ageing Process

30. Theophrastus, Characters, Three Types

31. Menander, Dyskolos, The Misanthrope

32. Corinna, Fragmentary Poems, The Contest of Two Mountains

33. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book IV, Hercules and the Twelve Labours

34. Arrian, The Anabasis of Alexander, Book III, Alexander the Great meets the Ram God