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by Ovid

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Main episodes

  • Book I: Cosmogony, Ages of Man, Gigantes, Daphne, Io;
  • Book II: Phaëton, Callisto, Jupiter and Europa;
  • Book III: Cadmus, Actaeon, Echo and Pentheus;
  • Book IV: Pyramus and Thisbe, Perseus and Andromeda.
  • Book V: Phineas, the Rape of Proserpina;
  • Book VI: Arachne, Niobe, Philomela and Procne;
  • Book VII: Medea, Cephalus and Procris;
  • Book VIII: Nisos and Scylla, Daedalus and Icarus, Baucis and Philemon;
  • Book IX: Heracles, Byblis;
  • Book X: Eurydice, Hyacinth, Pygmalion, Adonis, Atalanta, Cyparissus;
  • Book XI: Orpheus, Midas, Alcyone and Ceyx;
  • Book XII: Iphigeneia, Centaurs, Achilles; Aesacus
  • Book XIII: the Sack of Troy, Aeneas;
  • Book XIV: Scylla, Aeneas, Romulus;
  • Book XV: Pythagoras, Hippolytus, Aesculapius, Caesar.

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