Ovid's Metamorphoses

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction
Translator's Note

METAMORPHOSES

Book 1
Prologue • The First Creation • The Ages of Man • The Gigantomachy •
Lycaön • The Deluge • Deucalion and Pyrrha • The Second
Creation: Python • Apollo and Daphne • Io, Part 1 • Argus:
Pan and Syrinx • Io, Part 2 • Phaëthon, Part 1

Book 2
Phaëthon, Part 2 • The Heliads and Cygnus • Callisto • The Raven
and the Crow • Ocyrhoë • Battus • The Envy of Aglauros • Europa

Book 3
Cadmus and the Dragon's Teeth • Actaeon • Semele • Tiresias •
Echo and Narcissus • Pentheus and Acoetes

Book 4
The Daughters of Minyas, Part 1 • Pyramus and Thisbe • The Loves
of the Sun • Hermaphroditus and Salmacis • The Daughters of
Minyas, Part 2 • Athamas and Ino • Cadmus and Harmonia • Perseus,
Atlas, and Andromeda • Perseus and Medusa

Book 5
Perseus and Phineus • Proetus and Polydectes • Pyreneus and the
Muses • The Pierides, Part 1 • The Rape of Proserpine • Arethusa •
Lyncus and Triptolemus • The Pierides, Part 2

Book 6
Arachne and Minerva • Niobe • Latona and the Lycians • Marsyas •
Pelops • Tereus, Procne, and Philomela • Boreas and Orithyia

Book 7
Medea • Theseus • The War with Minos • The Myrmidons • Cephalus
and Procris

Book 8
Scylla and Nisus • The Minotaur • Daedalus • The Calydonian
Hunt • Althaea and Meleäger • Acheloüs • Baucis and
Philemon • Mestra and Erysichthon • Acheloüs and Hercules, Part 1

Book 9
Acheloüs and Hercules, Part 2 • The Death of Hercules • Lucina
and Galanthis • Dryope and Lotus • Iolaüs and Themis • Byblis and
Caunus • Iphis and Ianthe

Book 10
Orpheus and Eurydice • Cyparissus • Ganymede and
Hyacinth • The Cerastae, the Propoetides, and
Pygmalion • Myrrha • Venus and Adonis

Book 11
The Death of Orpheus • Midas • Peleus and Thetis • Daedalion
and Chione • The Wolf of Psamathe • Ceÿx and Alcyone • Aesacus

Book 12
The Greeks at Aulis • The House of Rumor • Achilles and Cygnus •
Caenis Becomes Caeneus • The Centauromachy • Hercules and
Periclymenus • The Death of Achilles

Book 13
The Judgment of Arms • The Sorrows of Hecuba • Memnon •
The Daughters of Anius • Galatea, Acis, and Polyphemus • Scylla
and Glaucus, Part 1

Book 14
Scylla and Glaucus, Part 2 • The Sibyl of Cumae • Polyphemus • Ulysses
and Circe • Picus and Canens • The Crew of Diomedes • The Apotheosis
of Aeneas • Pomona and Vertumnus • The Apotheoses of
Romulus and Hersilie

Book 15
Hercules and Croton • Pythagoras • Egeria and Hippolytus •
Cipus • Aesculapius • The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar • Epilogue

Commentary
Appendix: Text and Translation Notes

Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Glossary of Names and Places
About the Translator