Outline of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Book I

• The Creation
• The Ages of Mankind
• The Flood [Lycaon]
• Deucalion and Pyrrha
• Apollo and Daphne
• Io [Syrinx]
• Phaethon

Book II

• Phaethon (cont.)
• Callisto
• The Raven and the Crow [Apollo and Coronis]
• Ocyrhoe
• Mercury and Battus
• The Envy of Aglauros
• Jupiter and Europa

Book III

• Cadmus
• Diana and Actaeon
• Semele and the Birth of Bacchus
• Tiresias
• Narcissus and Echo
• Pentheus and Bacchus [Acoetes]

Book IV

• The Daughters of Minyas
• Pyramus and Thisbe
• The Sun in Love
• Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
• The Daughters of Minyas Transformed
• Athamas and Ino
• The Transformation of Cadmus
• Perseus and Andromeda

Book V

• Perseus' Fight in the Palace of Cepheus
• Minerva Meets the Muses on Helicon [Contest with Pierides]
• The Rape of Proserpine [Cyane]
• Arethusa
• Triptolemus

Book VI

• Arachne
• Niobe
• The Lycian Peasants
• Marsysas
• Pelops
• Tereus, Procne, and Philomela
• Boreas and Orithyia

Book VII

• Medea and Jason
• Medea and Aeson
• Medea and Pelias: Her Flight
• Theseus
• Minos, Aeacus, the Plague at Aegina, and the Myrmidons
• Cephalus and Procris

Book VIII

• Scylla and Minos
• The Minotaur
• Daedalus and Icarus
• Perdix
• Meleager and the Calydonian Boar [Atalanta]
• Althaea and Meleager
• Achelous and the Nymphs
• Philemon and Baucis
• Erysichthon and his Daughter

Book IX

• Achelous and Hercules
• Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira
• The Death and Apotheosis of Hercules
• The Birth of Hercules
• Dryope
• Iolaus and the Sons of Callirhoe
• Byblis
• Iphis and Ianthe

Book X

• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Cyparissus
• Ganymede
• Hyacinth
• Pygmalion
• Myrrha
• Venus and Adonis
• Atalanta

Book XI

• The Death of Orpheus
• Midas
• First Foundation and Destruction of Troy
• Peleus and Thetis
• Daedalion
• The Cattle of Peleus
• Ceyx and Alcyone
• Aesacus

Book XII

• The Expedition against Troy
• Achilles and Cycnus
• Caenis
• The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
• Nestor and Hercules
• The Death of Achilles

Book XIII

• Ajax and Ulysses and the Arms of Achilles
• The Fall of Troy
• Hecuba, Polyxena, and Polydorus
• Memnon

• The Pilgrimage of Aeneas
• Acis and Galatea
• Scylla and Glaucus

Book XIV

• Scylla and Glaucus (cont.)
• The Pilgrimage of Aeneas (cont.)
• The Island of Circe
• Picus and Canens
• The Triumph and Apotheosis of Aeneas
• Pomona and Vertumnus
• Legends of Early Rome; The Apotheosis of Romulus

Book XV

• Numa and the Foundation of Crotona
• The Doctrines of Pythagoras
• The Death of Numa
• Hippolytus
• Cipus
• Aesculapius
• The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar
• Epilogue
  
  
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