Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. Anthony S. Kline

           A complete English translation and Mythological index
'I change but I cannot die.'  Shelley, 'The Cloud' 76
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Map

(Ancient Greece and the Aegean)       

Book I

(Chaos, Four Ages, Flood, Daphne, Io, Syrinx, Phaethon)

Book II

(Phaethon’s fall, Callisto, Coronis, Aglauros, Europa)

Book III

(Cadmus, Actaeon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus, Pentheus)

Book IV

(Pyramus, Leucothoe, Salmacis, Ino, Cadmus, Perseus) 

Book V

(Perseus, Calliope, Proserpine, Arethusa, The Pierides)

Book VI

(Arachne, Niobe, Marsyas, Procne, Philomela, Boreas)

Book VII

(Jason, Medea, Minos, The Plague, Myrmidons, Procris)

Book VIII

(Scylla, Daedalus, Icarus, Meleager, Philemon and Baucis)

Book IX

(Hercules, Alcmene, Iole, Galanthis, Dryope, Byblis, Iphis)

Book X

(Orpheus, Pygmalion, Myrrha, Venus and Adonis, Atalanta)

Book XI

(Death of Orpheus, Midas, Peleus, Ceyx, Alcyone, Aesacus)

Book XII 

(Rumour, Cycnus, Caeneus, Lapiths and Centaurs, Achilles)

Book XIII

(Ajax, Ulysses, Polyxena, Hecuba, Memnon, Galatea, Glaucus)

Book XIV

(Scylla, Sibyl, Polyphemus, Circe, Picus, Pomona, Romulus)

Book XV 

(Pythagoras, Hippolytus, Cipus, Aesculapius, The Caesars)



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