THE METAMORPHOSES Books I-III.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Ovid and Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
Fable descriptions are taken from the translator’s Synopses.
Introduction
Book I The Argument Fable I: God reduces Chaos into order. Fable II: God gives form and regularity to the universe. Fable III: The Golden Age. Fable IV: The Silver Age. The Brazen Age. The Iron Age. Fable V: The Giants. Fable VI: Jupiter determines to destroy the world. Fable VII: Lycaon changes into a wolf. Fable VIII: Jupiter resolves to extirpate mankind by a universal deluge. Fable IX: Neptune appeases the angry waves. Deucalion and Pyrrha are the only persons saved from the deluge. Fable X: Deucalion and Pyrrha re-people the earth. Fable XI: Apollo institutes the Pythian games. Fable XII: Apollo and Daphne. Fable XIII: Jupiter and Io. Fable XIV: Jupiter changes Io into a cow; the watchful Argus. Fable XV: Pan and Syrinx. Fable XVI: Juno places Argus’s eyes in the peacock’s tail. Fable XVII: Io stops in Egypt, under the name of Isis.
Book II Fable I: Phaëton guides Apollo’s chariot. Fable II: Phaëton falls into the river Eridanus. Fable III: The sisters of Phaëton. Fable IV: Cycnus is transformed into a swan. Fable V: Jupiter and Calisto. Fables VI and VII: Calisto is transformed into a Bear. Calisto and Arcas become the Great and the Little Bear. The raven is changed from white to black. Fable VIII: Ericthonius enclosed in a basket. Fable IX: Nyctimene transformed into an owl. Fable X: Ocyrrhoë, the daughter of Chiron, transformed into a mare. Fable XI: Mercury steals the oxen of Apollo. Fable XII: Mercury and Herse. Fable XIII: Aglauros and Envy. Fable XIV: Jupiter and Europa.
Book III Fable I: Cadmus founds Bœotia. Fable II: Cadmus and the dragon’s teeth. Cadmus founds Thebes. Fable III: Actæon transformed into a stag. Fable IV: Jupiter and Semele. Fable V: Birth of Bacchus. Tiresias decides a dispute between Jupiter and Juno. Fable VI: Echo and Narcissus. Fable VII: Narcissus changed into a flower. Fable VIII: Pentheus is torn to pieces by the Bacchantes.