35. Pseudo-Callisthenes, The Alexander Romance, The Death of Alexander

36. Aratus, Phaenomena, The Constellation of the Maiden

37. Plautus, The Merchant, The Merchant

38. Moschus, ‘Idyll II’, Europa and the Bull

39. Terence, The Brothers, Trouble Comes to Town

40. Hyginus, Fabulae, Philoctetes

41. Statius, Thebaid, Book V, Slaughter of the Husbands

42. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, The Golden Fleece

43. Euripides, Medea, Medea’s Revenge

44. Catullus, ‘Poem 64’, Ariadne and Theseus

45. Cornelius Nepos, Alcibiades, Alcibiades

46. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Book V, In the Beginning

47. Sulpicia, Elegies, Sulpicia’s Birthday

48. Virgil, Aeneid, Book II, The Trojan Horse

49. Virgil, Aeneid, Book IV, Dido and Aeneas

50. Livy, Ab urbe condita, Book I, Romulus and Remus

51. Livy, Ab urbe condita, Book V, The Geese on the Capitol

52. Silius Italicus, Punica, Book I, The Rise of Hannibal

53. Catullus, ‘Poem 63’, Attis and the Mother Goddess

54. Varro, De Re Rustica, III, A Country Villa

55. Appian, Civil Wars, Spartacus

56. Cicero, Pro Caelio, A Woman Scorned?

57. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, Cicero: for his Daughter

58. Lucan, Pharsalia, Book I, Caesar versus Pompey

59. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV, Divine Caesar

60. Plutarch, Life of Antony, Antony and Cleopatra

61. Attr. Galen, On Theriac to Piso, To Heal an Asp Bite

62. Anon., Culex, The Gnat

63. Virgil, Georgics, Book IV, Orpheus and Eurydice

64. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III, Narcissus

65. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III, Diana & Actaeon

66. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book X, Pygmalion

67. Ovid, Tristia, Book I, Ovid’s Defence

68. Horace, Satires, II.6, The Town and the Country Mouse

69. Phaedrus, Aesop’s Fables, The Emperor’s Slave

70. Suetonius, Life of Caligula, The Riches of Caligula

71. attr. Seneca the Younger, Apocolocyntosis, The Pumpkinification of Emperor Claudius

72. Tacitus, Agricola, The Story of Britain

73. Tacitus, Annals, The Great Fire of Rome

74. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, Dinner at Trimalchio’s

75. Pliny the Younger, Letters, 6.16, The Eruption of Vesuvius

76. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, On Lampstands, The Discovery of Glass, On the Dolphin

77. Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens, The Madness of Hercules

78. Josephus, Jewish War, Book III, The Siege of Jotapata

79. Juvenal, Satires, IV, The Colossal Turbot

80. Juvenal, Satires, XV, Cannibals in Egypt

81. Statius, Achilleid, Book I, Achilles Becomes a Girl

82. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, The Importance of Breast Milk

83. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Do It Yourself

84. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Androcles and the Lion

85. Apollodorus, The Library, Book II, Perseus and Medusa

86. Apollodorus, The Library, Book I, War on the Giants

87. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, The Metamorphosis of Cerambus

88. Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, First Love

89. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, A Sham Sacrifice

90. Lucian, Lucian: His Life or His Dream, The Dream of Lucian

91. Pseudo-Lucian, Erotes, Praxiteles and the Goddess

92. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, Cupid and Psyche

93. Philostratus the Elder, Imagines, A Picture of Phaëthon

94. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, The Wedding Feast

95. Ausonius, Cupid Crucified, Cupid Crucified

96. Saint Augustine, Confessions, Book I, A Classics Student

97. Claudian, ‘Idyll 1’, The Phoenix

98. Nonnos, Dionysiaca, Book VII, The Twice-Born God

99. Procopius, Secret History, Intrigues at the Palace

100. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A Meeting with Lady Philosophy

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