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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The creation | |
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| The four ages | |
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| The Giants' attempt to invade heaven | |
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| Jupiter and the gods | |
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| Lycaon | |
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| The flood | |
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| Deucalion and Pyrrha | |
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| Python | |
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| Daphne and Apollo | |
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| Jupiter and Io | |
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| Argus and Mercury | |
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| Pan and Syrinx | |
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| The death of Argus | |
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| Io in Egypt | |
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| Clymene and Phaethon | |
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| Phaethon at the Sun-god's palace | |
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| Phaethon's flight and death | |
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| The sisters of Phaethon | |
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| Cycnus | |
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| Jupiter and Callisto | |
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| Diana and Callisto | |
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| Callisto and Arcas | |
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| The raven and the crow | |
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| Apollo and Coronis | |
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| Ocyrhoe | |
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| Mercury and Battus | |
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| Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros | |
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| The house of Envy | |
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| Envy and Aglauros | |
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| Jupiter and Europa | |
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| Cadmus' founding of Thebes | |
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| Actaeon | |
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| Jupiter and Semele | |
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| The birth of Bacchus | |
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| Tiresias | |
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| Echo and Narcissus | |
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| Pentheus and Bacchus | |
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| Acoetes | |
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| The death of Pentheus | |
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| The daughters of Minyas | |
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| Pyramus and Thisbe | |
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| Mars and Venus | |
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| The Sun-god, Leucothoe, and Clytie | |
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| Salmacis and Hermaphroditus | |
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| The metamorphosis of the daughters of Minyas | |
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| Juno and Tisiphone | |
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| Tisiphone, Athamas, and Ino | |
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| The metamorphosis of Cadmus and Harmonia | |
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| Perseus and Atlas | |
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| Perseus and Andromeda | |
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| Perseus and Medusa | |
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| Perseus and Phineus | |
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| Minerva and the Muses | |
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| Pyreneus | |
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| The contest between the Muses and the daughters of Pierus | |
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| Typhoeus | |
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| The rape of Proserpina | |
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| Cyane | |
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| Arethusa | |
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| Ascalaphus | |
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| The Sirens | |
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| Arethusa's story | |
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| Triptolemus and Lyncus | |
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| The metamorphosis of the daughters of Pieros | |
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| Minerva and Arachne | |
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| Latona and Niobe | |
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| Latona and the Lycian farmers | |
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| Marsyas | |
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| Tereus, Procne, and Philomela | |
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| Boreas and Orithyia | |
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| Jason, Medea, and the quest for the golden fleece | |
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| Medea and Aeson | |
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| Medea and Pelias and his daughters | |
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| The flight of Medea | |
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| Medea, Aegeus, and Theseus | |
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| Minos and Aeacus | |
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| Cephalus and Aeacus | |
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| The plague at Aegina and the creation of the Myrmidons | |
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| Cephalus and Procris | |
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| Nisus and Scylla | |
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| Daedalus, the Minotaur, and the labyrinth | |
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| Ariadne | |
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| Daedalus and Icarus | |
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| Perdix | |
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| Meleager and the Calydonian boar hunt | |
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| Althaea and the death of Meleager | |
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| Theseus and Achelous | |
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| The Echinades and Perimele | |
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| Baucis and Philemon | |
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| Erysichthon and Hunger | |
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| Erysichthon's daughter | |
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| Achelous and Hercules | |
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| Hercules, Deianira and Nessus | |
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| The suffering of Hercules | |
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| Lichas | |
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| The death and apotheosis of Hercules | |
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| Galanthis and Hercules' birth | |
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| Dryope | |
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| Iolaus | |
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| Themis' prophecy and the sons of Callirhoe | |
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| Miletus, Byblis and Caunus | |
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| Iphis and Ianthe | |
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| Orpheus and Eurydice | |
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| Orpheus' retreat to Thrace | |
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| Cyparissus | |
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| The song of Orpheus: Ganymede | |
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| Apollo and Hyacinthus | |
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| The Cerastae and the Propoetides | |
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| Pygmalion | |
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| Cinyas and Myrrha | |
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| Venus and Adonis | |
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| Atalanta and Hippomenes | |
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| The death of Adonis | |
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| The death of Orpheus | |
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| Midas | |
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| Laomedon's double treachery | |
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| Peleus and Thetis | |
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| Peleus and Ceyx | |
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| Daedalion and Chione | |
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| The slaughter of Peleus' cattle | |
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| Ceyx and Alcyone | |
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| The house of Sleep | |
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| Alcyone's dream | |
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| The metamorphosis of Ceyx and Alcyone | |
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| Aesacus and Hesperia | |
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| The Greeks at Aulis | |
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| Rumor | |
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| The Greeks' arrival at Troy and the beginning of the Trojan War | |
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| Achilles and Cycnus | |
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| Nestor's story: Caeneus, the Lapiths and centaurs, and the death of Caeneus | |
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| Nestor, Tlepolemus, and Periclymenus | |
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| The death of Achilles | |
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| Ajax, Ulysses, and the arms of Achilles | |
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| Ajax's suicide | |
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| The fall of Troy | |
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| Hecuba's grief | |
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| The murder of Polydorus | |
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| The sacrifice of Polyxena | |
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| Hecuba's discovery of Polydorus' body and her revenge and metamorphosis | |
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| Aurora's intercession for Memnon | |
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| Memnon's funeral | |
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| Aeneas' flight from Troy with a band of Trojans | |
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| Aeneas on Delos | |
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| Anius' daughters | |
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| The daughters of Orion | |
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| Continuation of Aeneas' journey | |
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| Scylla and Galatea: Galatea's story, the song of Polyphemus, and the metamorphosis of Acis | |
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| Glaucus and Scylla | |
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| Glaucus, Circe, and Scylla | |
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| Aeneas' arrival at Cumae in Italy | |
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| Aeneas' journey to the underworld | |
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| The sybil's story | |
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| Achaemenides and Macareus | |
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| Achaemenides' story | |
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| Macareus' story | |
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| Picus | |
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| Aeneas' arrival at the mouth of the Tiber, marriage to Lavinia, and war with Turnus and the Rutulians | |
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| Venulus and Diomedes | |
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| Diomedes' story | |
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| Continuation of the war between Aeneas and Turnus | |
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| Turnus' defeat | |
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| The metamorphosis of Ardea | |
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| The death and apotheosis of Aeneas | |
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| Successors of Aeneas | |
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| Pomona and Vertumnus | |
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| Iphis and Anaxarete | |
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| Additional successors of Aeneas, the founding of Rome, and early Roman history | |
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| The apotheosis of Romulus and Hersilia | |
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| Numa's journey to Croton | |
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| Myscelus and the founding of Croton | |
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| The teachings of Pythagoras | |
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| Numa's return from Croton and his death | |
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| Egeria's grief | |
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| Hippolytus' story | |
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| Cipus | |
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| Aesculapius' arrival in Rome | |
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| The apotheosis of Julius Caesar | |
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| Prayer for Augustus | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography of Works Consulted | |
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| Index | |