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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Preliminaries to Philostratus's On Heroes | |
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| The Heroes of Philostratus's On Heroes: Fiction, Epic, and Hero-Cult | |
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| Initiation into the Mysteries of Heroes: Ancient Greek Hero Cult and On Heroes | |
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| Continuity and Tradition in Philostratus's On Heroes | |
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| The Educational Value of On Heroes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Plot of On Heroes | |
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| Philostratus and On Heroes as a Sophistic Work | |
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| Protesilaos: Origins and Trajectories of His Story in Literature, Art, and Cult | |
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| The Two Great Heroes: Protesilaos and Achilles | |
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| On Critiquing Heroic Traditions | |
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| The Aims of the Dialogue | |
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| On Reading the Dialogue | |
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| Philostratus On Heroes | |
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| The Phoenician's Quest (1.1-8.18) | |
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| The Vinedresser and the Phoenician Meet (1.1-6.6) | |
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| The Phoenician's Doubts Overcome (6.7-8.18) | |
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| Protesilaos (9.1-23.30) | |
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| The Sanctuary of Protesilaos at Elaious (9.1-7) | |
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| Protesilaos's Appearance, Character, and Way of Life (10.1-13.4) | |
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| Suppliants at Protesilaos's Sanctuary (14.1-17.6) | |
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| Recent Appearances of Heroes at Troy (18.1-23.1) | |
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| The Battle at Mysia and the Contest of the Shield (23.2-30) | |
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| Protesilaos's Opinion of Homer (24.1-25.17) | |
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| The Catalogue of the Heroes (25.18-42.4) | |
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| Nestor and Antilokhos (25.18-26.20) | |
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| Diomedes and Sthenelos (27.1-13) | |
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| Philoktetes (28.1-14) | |
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| Agamemnon, Menelaos, and Idomeneus (29.1-30.3) | |
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| The Locrian Ajax (31.1-32.2) | |
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| Palamedes and Odysseus (33.1-34.7) | |
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| The Telamonian Ajax (35.1-36.1) | |
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| The Trojan Heroes (36.2-42.4) | |
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| On Homer and His Art (43.1-44.4) | |
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| Achilles (44.5-57.17) | |
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| Achilles' Life, Appearance, and Character (44.5-52.2) | |
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| The Cult of Achilles at Troy (52.3-54.1) | |
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| On Leuke (54.2-57.17) | |
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| The Songs of Achilles and Helen (54.2-55.6) | |
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| The Vengeance of Achilles (56.1-57.17) | |
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| Evening Falls (58.1-6) | |
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| Maps | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Topical Bibliographies | |
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| Index of Ancient Writings | |
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| Subject Index | |