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Introduction | |
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atlas | |
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Atlas on Grass | |
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Prometheus | |
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Prometheus on His Crag (20) | |
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Old Prometheus | |
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Prometheus | |
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Inhabited Liver | |
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New Prometheus | |
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Prometheus | |
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For Pandora, Again | |
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Jupiter on Juno | |
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Jove | |
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Leda | |
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Leda | |
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Leda | |
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Leda and the Swan | |
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Leda | |
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Leda 3 | |
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Leda | |
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Living Next to Leda | |
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To Io, Afterwards | |
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Io Remembers | |
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"Pink foam of exhaustion round his soft lips ..." | |
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Europa | |
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"After abducting Europa ..." | |
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Alcmene | |
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Ganymede | |
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The Rape of Ganymede | |
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Demeter | |
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The Search | |
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Demeter's Prayer to Hades | |
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Persephone | |
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Persephone | |
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Persephone | |
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Hymn to Proserpine | |
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Bavarian Gentians | |
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Purple Anemones | |
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Pomegranate | |
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Apollo of the Physiologists | |
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Linear A | |
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Daphne with Her Thighs in Bark | |
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Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Tree | |
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Daphne Herself | |
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Daphne | |
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A Footnote to Ovid | |
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Daphne After | |
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Apollo and Daphne | |
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Daphne on Woodbrook Drive | |
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Apollo to Daphne | |
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Waking | |
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Marpessa's Choice | |
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Birth of Eventually Venus | |
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Episode with Aphrodite | |
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Aphrodite | |
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Praise to Aphrodite | |
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Aphrodite at Solstice | |
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The Re-birth of Venus | |
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Venus over the Desert | |
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The Death of Venus | |
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Athene's Song | |
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Athena's Vote | |
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Hermes | |
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"In the fourth year of the war ..." | |
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Hermes, Dog, and Star | |
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Expiation | |
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Mars | |
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Cretan Artemis | |
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Diana - or the Objects | |
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Hecate | |
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The Fate of Actaeon | |
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Endymion | |
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"Zeus fired Hephaestus ..." | |
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Hephaestus | |
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Vulcan | |
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Once and For All | |
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Playing Dionysos in The Bacchae | |
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Go Loudly, Pentheus | |
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Pentheus | |
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Eros | |
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Hymn to Eros | |
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Cupid's Chant | |
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Pan with Us | |
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Pan Is Dead | |
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The Clown's Report on Satyrs | |
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The Satyr | |
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The Centaur | |
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Centaur | |
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The Last Centaur | |
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Epitaph for a Centaur | |
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Chiron | |
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Dyad | |
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Virgin in a Tree | |
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Wooded Forms | |
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Proteus | |
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Proteus | |
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Proteus's Tale | |
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Proteus | |
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The Sibyl | |
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A Sibyl | |
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The Sibyl | |
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On the Banks of the Styx | |
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Charon's Cosmology | |
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Shore | |
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Canto 26 | |
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Charon | |
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Cerberus | |
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Lethe | |
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Lethe | |
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There Is No River Which Is Called Lethe | |
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Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes | |
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Eurydice to Orpheus | |
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Eurydice | |
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Eurydice | |
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Descent | |
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Orpheus in Hell | |
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Orpheus and Eurydice | |
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The Look Back | |
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Eurydice | |
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Orpheus | |
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Orpheus | |
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Betrayals/Hades, Eurydice, Orpheus | |
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Orpheus in the Underworld | |
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Eurydice in Darkness | |
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Orpheus and Eurydice | |
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Orpheus' Dream | |
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Darkness Spoken | |
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Orpheus | |
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A Tree Telling of Orpheus | |
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Orpheus Alone | |
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from The Sonnets to Orpheus (II, XIII) | |
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Passion | |
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Finding Eurydice | |
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Orpheus Opens His Morning Mail | |
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Orpheus (2) | |
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"So they drifted: the lyre and the head ..." | |
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The Poem as a Mask/Orpheus | |
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The Head of Orpheus | |
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Orpheus | |
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Orpheus | |
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from The Sonnets to Orpheus (I, XXVI) | |
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Philemon and Baucis | |
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Powers to Thirteen (#44) | |
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Alcestis | |
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Alcestis, or Autumn: A Hymn (IV) | |
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Alcestis | |
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Alcestis | |
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Narcissus, Echo | |
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Narcissus | |
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Narcissus | |
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Narcissus (I) | |
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The Rape of Narcissus | |
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Narcissus at 60 | |
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Narcissus in the Desert | |
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Philomela | |
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Philomela | |
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Philomela with a Melody | |
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Pygmalion | |
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Galatea Encore | |
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Phaethon's Dream | |
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Phaeton | |
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"Niobe, Also, of the Beautiful Hair, Thought of Eating" | |
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"Niobe, your tears ..." | |
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Niobe Now | |
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Deadalus: The Dirge | |
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Musee des Beaux Arts | |
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Icarus | |
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Icarus to Eve | |
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Waiting for Icarus | |
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Icarus | |
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To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph | |
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Icarus Descended | |
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Icarus by Night | |
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Daedalus | |
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Arachne's Story | |
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Arachne | |
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Marsyas and the Flute | |
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Aftermath | |
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Psyche Pleads with Cupid | |
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Psyche with the Candle | |
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"When Psyche - life - goes down to the shades ..." | |
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The Myth of Sisyphus | |
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instructions for sisyphus | |
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"nothing is told about the moment ..." | |
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New Sisyphus | |
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Sisyphus | |
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The Maxims of Sisyphus | |
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The Abnegation | |
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Tantalus | |
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Medusa | |
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Medusa | |
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Ode: The Medusa Face | |
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Tableau Vivant | |
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Perseus | |
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The Muse as Medusa | |
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Heracles | |
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The Labours of Hercules (13) | |
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Hercules at Nemea | |
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Hercules and Antaeus | |
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The Argonauts | |
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Mythistorema (4) | |
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The Decline of the Argo | |
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Jason's Grave in Jerusalem | |
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Medea | |
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Pasiphae | |
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Lament for Pasiphae | |
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Ariadne | |
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Theseus and Ariadne | |
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Ariadne auf Naxos | |
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Requiem | |
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The Minotaur | |
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Minotaur | |
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The Labyrinth | |
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Phaedra in the Farm House | |
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Oedipus | |
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Oedipus and the Riddle | |
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The Sphinx's Riddle to Oedipus | |
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The Theban Sphinx | |
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Myth | |
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What Riddle Asked the Sphinx | |
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Dialogue with the Sphinx | |
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Oedipus II | |
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Sphinx Ludens | |
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The Approach to Thebes | |
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The Other Oedipus | |
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Last Words | |
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The Judgment of Paris | |
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Paris Reconsiders | |
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How Cassandra Became Clairvoyant | |
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The Real Reason | |
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Soliloquy for Cassandra | |
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Cassandra | |
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Cassandra | |
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Cassandra | |
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Helen | |
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Helen | |
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"Thus - only Helen looks past ..." | |
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"There are rhymes in this world ..." | |
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Helen's Burning | |
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Helen's Faces | |
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Helen | |
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When Helen Lived | |
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No Second Troy | |
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"Weakfulness, Homer. Taut sails ..." | |
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Helen | |
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On the Walls | |
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Iphigenia | |
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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia | |
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Iphigenia | |
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Iphigenia: Politics | |
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Iphigenia, Setting the Record Straight | |
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Reading a Greek Pitcher | |
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Troy | |
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On Reading a Recent Greek Poet | |
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Trojans | |
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"Since I could not keep hold of your hands ..." | |
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My Weariness of Epic Proportions | |
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#39 Lesson in Homer | |
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A Moment in Troy | |
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Boy, Cat, Canary | |
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Patroclus Putting on the Armour of Achilles | |
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The Horses of Achilles | |
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The Shield of Achilles | |
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The Helmet | |
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Ceasefire | |
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In the Shadow of Homer | |
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Hecuba's Testament | |
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The Menelaus | |
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Clytemnestra (I) | |
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The Missing Knot | |
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Agamemnon in Hades | |
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Mycenae | |
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Electra, Waiting | |
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Electra | |
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Mythistorema (16) | |
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Chorus of Furies | |
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The Furies | |
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Dido's Farewell to Aeneas | |
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"Don not be frightened ..." | |
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Dido's Farewell | |
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Body Politic | |
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The Mediterranean | |
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Aeneas at Washington | |
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"He who called blood builder ..." | |
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Falling Asleep over the Aeneid | |
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Turnus | |
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Odysseus | |
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Ithaka | |
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Odysseus | |
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Ulysses | |
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Ulysses | |
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The Grave of Odysseus | |
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"Aft, he sleeps ..." | |
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A Second Odyssey | |
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Mortal Infliction | |
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The Greeks Are Blinding Polyphemus | |
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Circe | |
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Pity Ulysses | |
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Circe's Power | |
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Moly | |
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Circe | |
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Odysseus's Temptation | |
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The Sirens | |
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Siren Song | |
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Haven | |
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The Sirens | |
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The Companions in Hades | |
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Calypso | |
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The Island | |
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"Give me poison to die or dreams to live ..." | |
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Nausicaa | |
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Ithaca | |
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The World as Meditation | |
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An Ancient Gesture | |
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You Are Odysseus | |
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Penelope's Despair | |
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Fiery Water | |
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Odyssey, Book Twenty-three | |
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Ulysses | |
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Glossary | |
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Index of Poets | |
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Index of Translators | |
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Acknowledgments and Permissions | |