Efnisyfirlit

• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations and Tables
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• INTRODUCTION
  • THE KINDS OF ANCIENT STORY
  • THE PRESENT BOOK
• CHAPTER 1 KINGS AND PRINCESSES
  • 1. Cupid and Psyche
  • 2. The Treasury of Rhampsinitos
  • 3. The Pharaoh and the Courtesan
• CHAPTER 2 GODS AND GHOSTS
  • DIVINE EPIPHANIES
    • 4. The Muses Appear to Hesiod
    • 5. The Muses Appear to Archilochos
    • 6. Thamyris Competes against the Muses
    • 7. Stesichoros’s Palinode
    • 8. Asklepios Heals Pandaros
    • 9. Asklepios Reveals Secrets of the Gods
    • 10. Athena Saves the Lindians
    • 11. The Altar of the Vulture God
    • 12. A Fortune in Water
    • 13. The Rescue of Simonides
  • LOWER MYTHOLOGY
    • 14. Narcissus
    • 15. Rhoikos and the Nymph
    • 16. “The Great God Pan Is Dead!”
    • 17. Bogies
  • SHAPE-CHANGERS
    • 18. The Werewolf
    • 19. The Empousa
  • GHOSTS
    • 20. Philinnion
    • 21. The Last Princess at Troy
    • 22. The Grateful Dead Man
    • 23. Murder at the Inn
    • 24. Letter from the Middle of the Earth
    • 25. The Haunted House
    • 26. The Haunted Baths
    • 27. The Haunted Battlefield
    • 28. The Hero of Temesa
    • 29. Periander’s Wife
  • EARLY WONDER-WORKERS
    • 30. Abaris the Hyperborean
    • 31. Aristeas of Prokonnesos
    • 32. Hermotimos of Klazomenai
    • 33. Epimenides of Crete
    • 34. Pherekydes of Syros
    • 35. Pythagoras
  • TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS
    • 36. Pythagoras Remembers an Earlier Life
    • 37. Pythagoras Discerns a Friend’s Soul in a Dog
    • 38. Empedokles Recalls His Earlier Lives
    • 39. The Woman Who Remembers Too Much
  • MAGICIANS AND WITCHES
    • 40. Pases the Magician
    • 41. Attack by Star-Stroke
    • 42. A Woman Dies from Spells
    • 43. The Soul- Drawing Wand
    • 44. Apollonios Cures a Plague
    • 45. The Magician’s Apprentice
    • 46. Evil Landladies
  • DIVINATION AND SEERS
    • 47. The Language of Birds
    • 48. The Acquisition of the Sibylline Oracles
    • 49. What the Sibyl Wants
    • 50. Bacchus Forsakes Antony
    • 51. Cato Explains a Portent
    • 52. Cato on Soothsayers
  • FATE
    • 53. Polykrates’s Ring
    • 54. “Zeus, Why Me?”
    • 55. The Last Days of Mykerinos
    • 56. Kleonymos’s Near-Death Experience
    • 57. Eurynoos’s Near-Death Experience
    • 58. Curma’s Near-Death Experience
  • JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND PAGANS
    • 59. The Origin of the Septuagint
    • 60. Miracles of Jesus
    • 61. Paul and Barnabas Mistaken for Pagan Gods
    • 62. The Discovery of the True Cross
    • 63. The Last Delphic Oracle
    • 64. “You Have Won, Galilean!”
    • 65. The Murder of Hypatia
• CHAPTER 3 LEGENDS ON VARIOUS THEMES
  • THE BIZARRE
    • 66. Capture of a Satyr
    • 67. Capture of a Centaur
    • 68. Sightings of Mermen and Mermaids
    • 69. The Self-Sustaining Beast
    • 70. In Love with a Statue
    • 71. Animal Offspring
    • 72. The Ugly Man
    • 73. Male Parturition
    • 74. Sudden Change of Sex
    • 75. Periodic Ecstasy
    • 76. The Laughing Tirynthians
    • 77. The Man Who Loses His Laugh
    • 78. A Strange Tomb
    • 79. The Lame Man and the Blind Man
  • IRONY
    • 80. Intaphrenes’s Wife
    • 81. A Parent’s Request
    • 82. Plato’s Characters
    • 83. The Unbreakable Glass Bowl
  • ANIMALS
    • 84. The Dolphin Rider
    • 85. The Grateful Dolphin
    • 86. Androkles and the Lion
    • 87. How Ophiteia Gets Its Name
    • 88. Xanthippos’s Dog
    • 89. The Accidental Killing of a Cat
  • CHILDREN
    • 90. The Children Play King
    • 91. The Children Play Priest
    • 92. The Children Play War
    • 93. A Child Steals from the Goddess
  • FRIENDS
    • 94. Damon and Phintias
    • 95. Friends Unknown
    • 96. Abauchas’s Choice
  • RULERS AND TYRANTS
    • 97. Plato Teaches a Tyrant about Democracy
    • 98. The City of Forbidden Expression
    • 99. Ismenias’s Subterfuge
    • 100. Queen for a Day
    • 101. The Absentminded Emperor
  • JUSTICE
    • 102. Zeus’s Ledger
    • 103. The Golden Ax
    • 104. The Judge of the Ants
    • 105. Tarpeia’s Reward
    • 106. The Cranes of Ibykos
    • 107. The Murder of Mitys of Argos
    • 108. An Eye for an Eye
    • 109. The Trial of the Courtesan Phryne
    • 110. The Problem of Dreamt Sex
    • 111. The Disputed Child
    • 112. Abusive Son of an Abusive Father
• CHAPTER 4 TRICKSTERS AND LOVERS
  • TRICKERY AND CLEVERNESS
    • 113. Trophonios and Agamedes
    • 114. The Dishonest Banker
    • 115. The Joint Depositors
    • 116. The Two Thieves
    • 117. Aesop and the Figs
    • 118. Never Heard Before
    • 119. The Slaves Take Over
    • 120. The Milesians Hold a Party
    • 121. Saving Lampsakos
    • 122. The Suckling Daughter
    • 123. A Donkey’s Shadow
    • 124. The Hoax
  • LOVERS AND SEDUCERS
    • 125. Zeus and Hera Wrangle over Sexuality
    • 126. The Affair of Ares and Aphrodite
    • 127. Iphimedeia Desires Poseidon
    • 128. Hippolytos and Phaidra
    • 129. The Husband’s Untimely Return: 1
    • 130. The Husband’s Untimely Return: 2
    • 131. The Signal
    • 132. The Widow of Ephesos
    • 133. Sleeping with a God
    • 134. The Pergamene Boy
    • 135. Aesop and the Master’s Wife
    • 136. The King’s Trusted Friend
    • 137. Dream-Lovers
    • 138. The Astute Physician
    • 139. Hero and Leander
    • 140. Xanthos, Who Longs for His Wife
    • 141. Ariston and His Friend’s Wife
    • 142. Olympians in the Bedroom
• CHAPTER 5 ARTISTS AND ATHLETES
  • ARTISTS AND THE ARTS
    • 143. Herakles Fooled
    • 144. Nature Fooled
    • 145. Painter Fooled
    • 146. The Sculptor Polykleitos
    • 147. Models for Helen of Troy
    • 148. Helen’s Chalice
    • 149. Archilochos: Lethal Iambics
    • 150. Hipponax: More Lethal Iambics
    • 151. The Cicada
    • 152. A Singer’s Compensation
    • 153. Pindar’s Sacrifice
    • 154. Pindar’s House
    • 155. Phrynichos Fined
    • 156. The Chorus of Aeschylus’s
    • 157. Sophocles on Himself and Euripides
    • 158. “I See a Weasel”
    • 159. “Mother, I Call to You”
    • 160. Saved by Euripides
    • 161. How Menander Composes His Plays
    • 162. The First Line of Plato’s Republic
    • 163. Ovid’s Worst Lines
  • ATHLETES
    • 164. The Origin of the Stadium
    • 165. The First Marathon
    • 166. The Origin of Nude Athletes
    • 167. The Origin of Nude Trainers
    • 168. Polymestor the Sprinter
    • 169. Ageus the Long-Distance Runner
    • 170. Milon the Wrestler
    • 171. Eumastas the Strongman
    • 172. Theagenes’s Statue
    • 173. Poulydamas the Pancratiast
    • 174. Kleomedes Runs Amok
    • 175. Astylos Angers His Hometown
    • 176. Exainetos Pleases His Hometown
    • 177. Glaukos the Boxer
    • 178. The Reluctant Dueler
• CHAPTER 6 MEMORABLE WORDS, NOTABLE ACTIONS
  • PORTENTS
    • 179. The Infant Pindar on Mt. Helikon
    • 180. The Infant Plato on Mt. Hymettos
    • 181. Young Demosthenes in Court
  • CHARACTERIZATIONS
    • 182. A Statue of Homer
    • 183. Themistokles and the Man from Seriphos
    • 184. Aristeides the Just
    • 185. Timon the Misanthrope
    • 186. The Arrest of Theramenes
    • 187. Socrates’s Hardihood
    • 188. Socrates Ponders a Problem
    • 189. Demosthenes’s Handicaps
    • 190. “Delivery!”
    • 191. Only Human
    • 192. What Alexander Sleeps Upon
    • 193. Cleopatra’s Wager
    • 194. The Lamprey Pools
    • 195. A Principled Man
    • 196. Nero Fiddles
    • 197. “Where Would He Be Now?”
    • 198. A Slave’s Eye
    • 199. The People of Akragas
  • LACONIC SPARTANS
    • 200. Too Many Words
    • 201. A Spartan Mother
    • 202. Discussion at Thermopylae
    • 203. Alexander the Great Becomes a God
    • 204. On Spartan Adultery
  • DELUSION
    • 205. Menekrates, Who Calls Himself Zeus
    • 206. Menekrates-Zeus Writes to King Philip
    • 207. Philip Hosts Menekrates
    • 208. Hannon’s Birds
    • 209. The Woman Who Holds Up the World with Her Finger
    • 210. The House Called Trireme
    • 211. The Happy Shipowner
    • 212. The Happy Playgoer
  • MEMORABLE WORDS
    • 213. Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
    • 214. Which Came First?
    • 215. Alter Ego
    • 216. “Give Me a Place to Stand, and I’ll Move the World!”
    • 217. Life Is Like the Olympic Games
    • 218. “The Die Is Cast”
    • 219. “Et tu, Brute?”
    • 220. In Hoc Signo Vinces
  • MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES
    • 221. Toxic Honey
    • 222. A Narrow Escape
    • 223. The Great Fish
    • 224. The Discovery of Archimedes’s Tomb
  • SUMMING UP AND LAST WORDS
    • 225. Counting One’s Blessings
    • 226. Socrates
    • 227. Theophrastos’s Lament
    • 228. Vespasian’s Last Words
  • DEATHS
    • 229. Pythagoras
    • 230. Aeschylus
    • 231. Euripides
    • 232. Philemon
    • 233. Diogenes the Cynic
    • 234. Zenon
    • 235. Cleopatra
    • 236. Petronius Arbiter
    • 237. Archimedes
• CHAPTER 7 SAGES AND PHILOSOPHERS
  • TRUTH AND WISDOM
    • 238. The Seven Sages and the Prize of Wisdom
    • 239. Thales on Life and Death
    • 240. A Question of Responsibility
    • 241. A Problem of Identity
    • 242. Secundus the Silent Philosopher
  • CONVERTING TO PHILOSOPHY
    • 243. Plato
    • 244. Axiothea
    • 245. Epicurus
  • BENEFITS AND PERILS OF PHILOSOPHY
    • 246. Aristippos on the Philosopher’s Advantage
    • 247. Aristippos on the Benefits of Philosophy
    • 248. Antisthenes on the Benefits of Philosophy
    • 249. Diogenes on the Benefits of Philosophy
    • 250. Krates on the Benefits of Philosophy
    • 251. The Most Useful Man in Ephesos
    • 252. Protagoras’s Books Burned
    • 253. Sinning against Philosophy
  • THE PHILOSOPHIC LIFE
    • 254. Thales in the Well
    • 255. Thales and the Olive Presses
  • WEALTH VS. WISDOM
    • 256. Simonides’s View
    • 257. Aristippos’s View
  • THE CYNICS
    • 258. Diogenes on Being Laughed At
    • 259. Diogenes and the Lantern
    • 260. The Meeting of Diogenes and Alexander
    • 261. Alexander’s Offer
    • 262. Diogenes on Personal Attire
    • 263. Diogenes on Temple Theft
    • 264. Diogenes on a Public Reading
    • 265. Diogenes Visits a Brothel
    • 266. Diogenes on the City of Myndos
    • 267. “Watch Out!”
    • 268. Krates and Hipparchia
    • 269. Monimos on Wealth
  • PHILOSOPHERS CRITICIZE ONE ANOTHER
    • 270. Diogenes Criticizes Plato
    • 271. Plato Criticizes Diogenes
    • 272. Plato Characterizes Diogenes
    • 273. Diogenes on Plato’s Theory of Ideas
    • 274. Diogenes on a Definition of Plato’s
    • 275. Diogenes on the Impossibility of Motion
  • EDUCATION AND LEARNING
    • 276. A Song before Dying
    • 277. The Entrance to Plato’s Classroom
    • 278. The Delian Problem
    • 279. The Worst Punishment
  • DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
    • 280. The Invention of Hunting
    • 281. The Invention of Board Games
    • 282. The Original Language
    • 283. Thales Inscribes a Triangle in a Circle
    • 284. Thales Measures the Height of the Pyramids
    • 285. Thales Predicts an Eclipse
    • 286. The Pythagorean Theorem
    • 287. “Eureka!”
  • HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT
    • 288. The Origin of Human Miseries
    • 289. The Rock of Tantalos
    • 290. The Sword of Damocles
    • 291. King Midas
    • 292. Wealth and Happiness
    • 293. Water and a Loaf of Bread
    • 294. Gold vs. Figs
    • 295. Untouched by Grief
    • 296. The Happy Mute
    • 297. Pyrrhos and Kineas
  • ON DRINKING
    • 298. The Third Cup of Wine
  • ON BEHAVING LIKE ANIMALS
    • 299. The Different Stages of Life
    • 300. The Different Kinds of People
    • 301. The Different Kinds of Women
  • AESOPIC FABLES
    • 302. The Fox and the Crane
    • 303. The Dog with a Piece of Meat
    • 304. The Raven with a Piece of Meat
    • 305. The King of the Apes
    • 306. The Ape with Important Ancestors
    • 307. The Sour Grapes
    • 308. The Ant and the Cicada
    • 309. The Lion’s Share
    • 310. The Race of the Tortoise and the Hare
    • 311. The Lion and the Mouse
    • 312. The Plump Dog
    • 313. The Transformed Weasel
    • 314. The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs
    • 315. The Tortoise That Wishes to Fly
    • 316. The King of the Frogs
    • 317. The Astronomer
    • 318. The Shepherd Who Cries “Wolf!”
    • 319. “Here Is Rhodes!”
    • 320. The Belly and the Feet
    • 321. The Oak and the Reed
  • SHORT FABLES
    • 322. The Mountain in Labor
    • 323. The Attentive Donkey
• CHAPTER 8 NUMSKULLS AND SYBARITES
  • TRADITIONAL NUMSKULLS
    • 324. Margites
    • 325. Meletides
    • 326. Koroibos
    • 327. Morychos
    • 328. Akko
    • 329. The Foolish Kymaians
    • 330. The Foolish Abderites
  • OTHER NUMSKULLS
    • 331. Carrying the Load
    • 332. Acquiring Sense
    • 333. Seeing the Doctor
    • 334. The Trained Donkey
    • 335. The Books
    • 336. The Slave
    • 337. A Call of Nature
    • 338. The Twins
    • 339. The Funeral
    • 340. The Ball in the Well
    • 341. The Educated Son
    • 342. The Travelers
    • 343. The Grateful Father
    • 344. A Pair of Twins
    • 345. The Fugitives
    • 346. The Pillow
  • WITS
    • 347. Too Healthy
    • 348. What Does It Taste Like?
    • 349. All in the Family
    • 350. The Strongest Thing
    • 351. Caesar’s Soldiers Sing
  • MISCELLANEOUS
    • 352. Not at Home
    • 353. The Portent
    • 354. The Deaf Judge
    • 355. The Scythian
    • 356. The Cold Reading
    • 357. The Covetous Man and the Envious Man
  • THE DELICATE SYBARITES
    • 358. Uncomfortable Sleep
    • 359. The Suitor
    • 360. Noise Policy
    • 361. The Affliction of Work
    • 362. Excursions to the Country
    • 363. Chamber Pots
    • 364. Piped Wine
    • 365. Policy on Parties
    • 366. Dancing Horses
  • TALL TALES
    • 367. Topsy-Turvy Land
    • 368. Frozen Speech
    • 369. Thin Men
• Appendix. Across the Genres: Ancient Terms, Belief, and Relative Numbers
• Notes on the Tales
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Ancient Sources
• List of International Stories

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