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
Nonnos: Nonnos, VOL. I, translated by W. H. D. Rouse, Loeb Classical Library Volume 344, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, First published 1940. Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Ovid: Metamorphoses: Translated by Various Authors by Mr. Dryden and Others. Public Domain.
Ovid: Tales from Ovid Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses by Ted Hughes, Faber & Faber Ltd, 2002. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.
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Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars: Gaius Suetonius Tranquilus translated by Robert Graves, Carcanet Press Limited, 1962. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.
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