Poet and critic Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969) also translated Virgil's Aeneid, Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Ovid's Art of Love, and Juvenal's Satires.

Joseph D. Reed is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid.

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE

The Creation

The Four Ages

Jove's Intervention

The Story of Lycaon

The Flood

Deucalion and Pyrrha

Apollo and Daphne

Jove and Io

BOOK TWO

The Story of Phaethon

Jove in Arcady

The Story of the Raven

The Story of Ocyrhoe

Mercury and Battus

Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros

The House of the Goddess Envy

Europa

BOOK THREE

The Story of Cadmus

The Story of Actaeon

The Story of Semele

The Story of Tiresias

The Story of Echo and Narcissus

The Story of Pentheus and Bacchus

BOOK FOUR

The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe

The Story of Mars and Venus

The Sun-god and Leucothoe

The Story of Salmacis

The End of the Daughters of Minyas

The Story of Athamas and Ino

TheEnd of Cadmus

The Story of Perseus

BOOK FIVE

The Fighting of Perseus

Minerva Visits the Muses

BOOK SIX

The Story of Niobe

The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela

BOOK SEVEN

The Story of Jason and Medea

War Between Crete and Athens

The Story of Cephalus and Procris

BOOK EIGHT

The Story of Nisus and Scylla

The Story of Daedalus and Icarus

The Calydonian Boar

The Brand of Meleager

The Return of Theseus

The Story of Baucis and Philemon

The Story of Erysichthon

BOOK NINE

The Story of Achelous' Duel for Deianira

The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira

The Story of Hercules' Birth

The Story of Dry ope

The Story of Caunus and Byblis

The Story of Iphis and Lanthe

BOOK TEN

The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice

The Story of Cyparissus

The Story of Ganymede

The Story of Apollo and Hyacinthus

Two Incidents of Venus Anger

The Story of Pygmalion

The Story of Cinyras and Myrrha

The Story of Adonis

Venus Tells Adonis the Story of Atalanta

The Fate of Adonis

BOOK ELEVEN

The Death of Orpheus

The Story of Midas

Midas Never Learns

The Building of the Walls of Troy

The Story of Thetis

Ceyx Tells the Story of Daedalion

The Story of Peleus' Cattle

The Quest of Ceyx

The Story of Aesacus and Hesperia

BOOK TWELVE

The Invasion of Troy

Nestor Tells the Story of Caeneus

Story of the Battle with the Centaurs

Nestor Is Asked Why He Omitted Hercules

BOOK THIRTEEN

The Argument between Ajax and Ulysses

After the Fall

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

The Discovery of Polydorus

The Story of Memnon

The Pilgrimage of Aeneas

The Story of Anius' Daughters

The Pilgrimage Resumed

The Story of Galatea

The Song of Polyphemus

The Transformation of Acis

The Story of Glaucus

BOOK FOURTEEN

The Story of Glaucus Continued

The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed

Achaemenides Tells His Story

The Story of Picus

The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed

The Narrative of Diomedes

The Return of Venulus

The Deification of Aeneas

Legendary History of Rome

Pomona and Vertumnus

The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete

More Early Roman History

BOOK FIFTEEN

The Succession of Numa

The Teachings of Pythagoras

The Return of Numa

The Story of Hippolytus

The Story of Cipus

The Story of Aesculapius

The Deification of Caesar

The Epilogue

COMMENTARY by Joseph D. Reed

EXPANDED GLOSSARY AND INDEX