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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 | |