Chapters (110)
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE BIRTH OF LOVE
- THE ORIGINS OF THE TROJAN WAR
- THE TRUCE
- HECTOR VERSUS ACHILLES
- THE DEATH OF ACHILLES
- THE CYCLOPS
- THE SONG OF DEMODOCUS
- AND SO TO BED
- PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA
- WHATEVER ONE LOVES
- PERSEPHONE AND THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS
- THE LIFE OF AESOP
- THE BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE
- THE VENGEANCE OF CLYTEMNESTRA
- EDUCATING CYRUS
- DARIUS AND THE SCYTHIANS
- XERXES’ CHOICE
- THE FALL OF THE BARBARIANS
- THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL
- A BEAST OF INDIA
- THE ECSTASY
- HIPPOLYTUS AND HIS HORSES
- EURIPIDES THE WOMAN-HATER
- OEDIPUS LEARNS THE TRUTH
- ONE GIRL VERSUS THE LAW
- THE PLAGUE AT ATHENS
- THE MURDER OF ERATOSTHENES
- THE POWER OF LOVE
- THE AGEING PROCESS
- THREE TYPES
- THE MISANTHROPE
- THE CONTEST OF TWO MOUNTAINS
- HERCULES AND THE TWELVE LABOURS
- ALEXANDER THE GREAT MEETS THE RAM GOD
- THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER
- THE CONSTELLATION OF THE MAIDEN
- THE MERCHANT
- EUROPA AND THE BULL
- TROUBLE COMES TO TOWN
- PHILOCTETES
- SLAUGHTER OF THE HUSBANDS
- THE GOLDEN FLEECE
- MEDEA’S REVENGE
- ARIADNE AND THESEUS
- ALCIBIADES
- IN THE BEGINNING
- SULPICIA’S BIRTHDAY
- THE TROJAN HORSE
- DIDO AND AENEAS
- ROMULUS AND REMUS
- THE GEESE ON THE CAPITOL
- THE RISE OF HANNIBAL
- ATTIS AND THE MOTHER GODDESS
- A COUNTRY VILLA
- SPARTACUS
- A WOMAN SCORNED?
- CICERO: FOR HIS DAUGHTER
- CAESAR VERSUS POMPEY
- DIVINE CAESAR
- ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
- TO HEAL AN ASP BITE
- THE GNAT
- ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
- NARCISSUS
- DIANA & ACTAEON
- PYGMALION
- OVID’S DEFENCE
- THE TOWN AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE
- THE EMPEROR’S SLAVE
- THE RICHES OF CALIGULA
- THE PUMPKINIFICATION OF EMPEROR CLAUDIUS
- THE STORY OF BRITAIN
- THE GREAT FIRE OF ROME
- DINNER AT TRIMALCHIO’S
- THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS
- ON LAMPSTANDS, THE DISCOVERY OF GLASS, ON THE DOLPHIN
- THE MADNESS OF HERCULES
- THE SIEGE OF JOTAPATA
- THE COLOSSAL TURBOT
- CANNIBALS IN EGYPT
- ACHILLES BECOMES A GIRL
- THE IMPORTANCE OF BREAST MILK
- DO IT YOURSELF
- ANDROCLES AND THE LION
- PERSEUS AND MEDUSA
- WAR ON THE GIANTS
- THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CERAMBUS
- FIRST LOVE
- A SHAM SACRIFICE
- THE DREAM OF LUCIAN
- PRAXITELES AND THE GODDESS
- CUPID AND PSYCHE
- A PICTURE OF PHAËTHON
- THE WEDDING FEAST
- CUPID CRUCIFIED
- A CLASSICS STUDENT
- THE PHOENIX
- THE TWICE-BORN GOD
- INTRIGUES AT THE PALACE
- A MEETING WITH LADY PHILOSOPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- EXTENDED COPYRIGHT
- About the Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
The kibisis is so called because dress and food are deposited in it. They had also the cap of Hades. When the Phorcides had shown him the way, he gave them back the tooth and the eye, and coming to the nymphs got what he wanted. So he slung the wallet (kibisis) about him, fitted the sandals to his ankles, and put the cap on his head. Wearing it, he saw whom he pleased, but was not seen by others. And having received also from Hermes an adamantine sickle he flew to the ocean and caught the Gorgons asleep. They were Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa. Now Medusa alone was mortal; for that reason Perseus was sent to fetch her head. But the Gorgons had heads twined about with the scales of dragons, and great tusks like swine’s, and brazen hands, and golden wings, by which they flew; and they turned to stone such as beheld them. So Perseus stood over them as they slept, and while Athena guided his hand and he looked with averted gaze on a brazen shield, in which he beheld the image of the Gorgon, he beheaded her. When her head was cut off, there sprang from the Gorgon the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, the father of Geryon; these she had by Poseidon. So Perseus put the head of Medusa in the wallet (kibisis) and went back again; but the Gorgons started up from their slumber and pursued Perseus: but they could not see him on account of the cap, for he was hidden by it.