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
Herodotus: ‘Darius and the Scythians’ from Herodotus: The Histories translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt, revised with introductory matter and notes by John Marincola, Penguin Classics 1954, Second revised edition 1996. Translation copyright © Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1954. This revised edition copyright © John Marincola, 1996. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books UK.
Homer: The Odyssey: Reprinted into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original by Samuel Butler. Public Domain.
Homer: ‘Hector v. Achilles’ from The Iliad, Book XXII, translated with an introduction by Martin Hammond, Penguin Classics, 1987, copyright © Martin Hammond, 1987. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books UK.
Homer: ‘The Truce’ in The Iliad, Book III, translated by E.V. Rieu. Revised and updated by Peter Jones with D.C.H. Rieu, edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Jones, Penguin Classics 1950, revised translation and Introduction and Notes copyright © Peter V. Jones, 2003. Copyright © the Estate of E.V. Rieu, 1946. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books UK.
Homer: The Odyssey of Homer translated by T. E. Shaw. Public Domain.
Homer: Homer: The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson, copyright © 2018 by Emily Wilson. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Horace: The Works of Horace by Philip Francis. Public Domain.
Hyginus: Apollodorus’ Library and Hyginus’ Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, copyright © Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2007. Reprinted by permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Josephus: Josephus: The Jewish War, Vol. II by H. St. J. Thackeray. Public Domain.
Juvenal: The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis by William Gifford. Public Domain.
Juvenal: Juvenal The Satires: A New Translation by Niall Rudd, Oxford University Press, 1999, translation copyright © Niall Rudd, 1991. Reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear.
Livy: Livy’s History of Rome by J. H. Freese. Public Domain.
Livy: Livy: History of Rome by Rev. Canon Roberts. Public Domain.
Longus: The Story of Daphnis and Chloe by George Thornley. Public Domain.
Lucan: Lucan – The Civil War translated by A. S. Kline, copyright © 2014. Reproduced with permission from the Estate of the author.
Lucian: Certain Select Dialogues of Lucian together with his True History by Francis Hickes. Public Domain.
Lucian: Lucian, VOL. VIII, translated by M. D. Macleod, Loeb Classical Library Volume 432, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, copyright © the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1967. Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Lucretius: Lucretius on The Nature of Things by Rev. John Selby. Public Domain.
Lysias: An excerpt from Chapter 1 “On the Death of Eratosthenes” in Lysias translated by S.C. Todd, pp.16–22, copyright © 2000. Reproduced by permission of the University of Texas Press.
Menander: Menander: Plays and Fragments, translated by Norma Miller, Penguin Books, 1987, copyright © Norma Miller, 2006.
Moschus: Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay by Andrew Lang. Public Domain.