[Book X]
[Fable I]: Orpheus and Eurydice
[Fable II]: Orpheus sings to the rocks and trees; the transformation of Attis
[Fable III]: Cyparissus
[Fable IV]: Jupiter and Ganymede
[Fable V]: Apollo accidentally kills Hyacinthus
[Fable VI]: the Cerastæ and the Propœtides
[Fable VII]: Pygmalion’s statue
[Fable VIII]: Cinyras, Myrrha and the birth of Adonis
[Fable IX]: Venus and Adonis; Hippomenes and Atalanta
[Fable X]: the death of Adonis
[Book XI]
[Fable I]: the Thracian women kill Orpheus
[Fable II]: Midas’s golden touch
[Fable III]: the contest of Pan and Apollo; Midas’s ears
[Fable IV]: the walls of Troy
[Fables V and VI]: Peleus and Thetis; assorted transformations
[Fable VII]: the shipwreck of Ceyx
[Fable VIII]: Hesperia and Æsacus
[Book XII]
[Fables I and II]: the Greeks sail for Troy; the sacrifice of Iphigenia
[Fables III and IV]: Cænis becomes Cæneus; the battle of the Lapithæ and Centaurs
[Fables V and VI]: Periclymenus; the death of Achilles
[Book XIII]
[Fable I]: Ajax and Ulysses fight for Achilles’s armor; the fall of Troy
[Fables III and IV]: the sacrifice of Polyxena; the funeral of Memnon
[Fables V and VI]: Æneas leaves Troy; the daughters of Anius and Orion
[Fable VII]: Polyphemus kills Acis
[Fable VIII]: Glaucus
[Book XIV]
[Fable I]: Circe, Glaucus and Scylla
[Fable II]: Dido and Æneas; the Cercopes
[Fable III]: Apollo and the Sibyl
[Fable IV]: Ulysses receives Æolus’s bag of winds
[Fable V]: Circe turns Ulysses’s men into swine
[Fable VI]: Circe, Pictus and Canens
[Fables VII and VIII]: the followers of Diomedes; the Apulian shepherd
[Fables IX and X]: the fleet of Æneas; the death of Turnus
[Fable XI]: Vertumnus and Pomona
[Fables XII and XIII]: Anaxarete; Romulus builds Rome
[Book XV]
[Fable I]: Myscelos builds Crotona
[Fables II and III]: Pythagoras teaches Numa
[Fables IV, V and VI]: the transformations of Egeria, Hippolytus and others
[Fable VII]: Æsculapius comes to Rome
[Fable VIII]: the assassination of Julius Cæsar
The Introduction is included here for completeness. The Synopses of Books I-VII have been omitted.
[ INTRODUCTION.]
The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, so ingeniously framed, as to embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learning, traditions, manners, and customs of antiquity, and have afforded a fertile field of investigation to the learned of the civilized world. To present to the public a faithful translation of a work, universally esteemed, not only for its varied information, but as being the masterpiece of one of the greatest Poets of ancient Rome, is the object of the present volume.