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Ovid and Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
Fable descriptions are taken from the translator’s Synopses.
Introduction
Book VIII Fable I: Minos and Scylla Fable II: Theseus and the Minotaur Fable III: Dædalus and Icarus Fable IV: Meleager and the Calydonian Boar Fable V: Acheloüs tells the five Naiads’ stories Fable VI: Baucis and Philemon; the transformations of Proteus Fable VII: Erisicthon’s hunger
Book IX Fable I: Hercules defeats Acheloüs to win Deïanira Fable II: Nessus and the death of Hercules Fable III: Galanthis and the birth of Hercules Fable IV: Lotis, Dryope and Iolaüs Fable V: Caunus and Byblis Fable VI: Iphis and Ianthe
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.