A classical storybook
Comedy, tragedy, realism and fantasy are woven into this collection of Greek and Roman narratives of love, war, and sea adventures.
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[1970]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Greeks: Ulysses and Nausicaa / Homer ; Rhampsinitus and the robbers / Herodotus ; The ring of Polycrates / Herodotus ; Zopyrus, the double agent / Herodotus ; The wooing of Agarista / Herodotus ; The Euboean hunter / Dio Chrysostom ; Chaereas and Callirhoe / Chariton ; True history / Lucian ; Daphnis and Chloe / Longus ; An Ethiopian story / Heliodorus ; Alexander, the Brahmins, and Queen Candace / Pseudo-Callisthenes
- 2. The Romans: The tragedy of Dido and Aeneas / Virgil ; Pyramus and Thisbe / Ovid ; Philemon and Baucis / Ovid ; Pygmalion / Ovid ; Trimalchio's dinner / Petronius ; Thelypgron's story / Apuleius ; The story of the gentlewoman / Apuleius ; Androclus and the lion / Aulus Gellius.