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
I was scarce come to my selfe, but straightway I turn’d to Menelaus, and asked him why he would detaine the truth of this matter from me? is not shee which I hold by the hand, and heare speake, mine owne Leucippe? What did I then see yesterday, either this or that was a dreame, and yet me thinkes againe this is a true and lively kisse, such a one as I use to have of my Leucippe: what say you, quoth Menelaus, if I finde her bowels againe, and heale this great wound without leaving any scar behinde? cover your face, for I must invoke the aide of Proserpina to the effecting of it, (whereat beleeving that hee was able to performe what hee promised) I did so, and while he utter’d some strange bombast words, hee tooke away that device which they had put before her breast to delude the theeves, and Leucippe was as whole as ever shee was; then hee bid mee looke backe, which I would scarce doe, fearing that Proserpina was there indeed, at length I turned about and uncovered my face, and saw Leucippe sound: At which wondring more and more, I told Menelaus if hee were some god he should tell us, then Leucippe intreated him that hee should hold mee no longer in suspence, but relate unto mee the whole carriage of the matter; so hee began.