ClSt / ComL 200:
Notes and Supplements

The Structure of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Book 1

Proemium 1-4

The First Creation * * *

• Cosmogony 5-88
• Myth of Ages 89-150
• Gigantomachy 151-162

The Second Creation * * *

• Council of the Gods 163-261
• Story of Lycaon (told by Jupiter) 211-243
• Flood 262-312
• Deucalion and Pyrrha 313-415

The Third Creation * * *

• Pytho 416-451

The Loves of the Gods * * *

• Apollo and Daphne 452-567
• Io 568-750
• Phaethon (beginning) 751-779

Book 2

• Phaethon (continuation) 1-400
• Callisto 401-530
• Apollo and Coronis (The Raven and the Crow) 531-675
• Mercury
• and Battus 676-707
• and Aglauros 708-832
• Europa 833-875

Book 3

Theban Cycle * * *

• Arrival of Cadmus 1-137
• Actaeon 138-252
• Semele (birth of Bacchus) 253-315
• Tiresias 316-338
• Narcissus and Echo 339-510
• Pentheus and Bacchus 511-733

Book 4

• Daughters of Minyas
1. First daughter (unnamed):
• Pyramus and Thisbe 55-166
2. Second daughter (Leucippe)
• Mars and Venus 167-189
• Sol and Leucothoe 190-256
• Sol and Clytie 256-270
3. Third daughter (Alcithoe)
• Salmacis and Hermaphroditus 271-388
• Metamorphosis of the Daughters of Minyas 389-415
• Athamas and Ino 416-562
• Metamorphosis of Cadmus 563-603

Perseus Cycle

• Perseus' birth 604-611
• Perseus and Medusa 612-620
• Perseus and Atlas 621-662
• Perseus and Andromeda 663-771
• Perseus and Medusa 772-803

Book 5

• Perseus and Cepheus 1-249

Contests

• Minerva
• Hippocrene 250-294
• Pierides v. Muses 295-678
1. Pierides: Typhoeus 317-340
2. One of the Muses: Ceres and Persephone 341-678
• abduction of Proserpina 341-408
• Cyane 409-437
• Stellio 438-461
• Arethusa (a) 462-508
• Ceres and Jupiter 509-532
• Ascalaphus 533-551
• Sirens 551-563
• Division of the year 564-571
• Arethusa (b) 572-641
• Triptolemus 642-661
• Judgment of the nymphs of Helicon 662-678

Book 6

• Minerva v. Arachne
• Latona
• v. Niobe
• Lycian Peasants
• Apollo v. Marsyas
• Pelops

Athenian Cycle

• Tereus, Procne, and Philomela
• Erechtheus, Boreas, and Orithyia

Book 7

• Jason and Medea
• Theseus (7.404-9.97)
• in Crete
• Minos
• on Aegina
• Plague of Aegina
• Myrmidons
• Cephalus and Procris

Book 8

• at Megara
• Scylla
• Daedalus
• the Labyrinth
• Ariadne
• Daedalus and Icarus
• Perdix
• in Aetolia
• Meleager
• Achelous
• Perimele
• Philemon and Baucis
• Proteus
• Erysichthon

Book 9

• Hercules Cycle
• Dryope
• Iolaus and the Sons of Callirhoe
• Byblis
• Iphis and Ianthe

Book 10

Orpheus Cycle

• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Descent to the Underworld
• Cyparissus
• Songs:
• Ganymede
• Hyacinthus
• Cerastae
• Propoetides
• Pygmalion
• Myrrha
• Venus and Adonis
• Atalanta and Hippomenes

Book 11

• Death of Orpheus
• Midas
Trojan Cycle
• Foundation of Troy
• Peleus and Thetis
• Daedalion
• Cattle of Peleus
• Ceyx and Alcyone
• Aesacus

Book 12

• Trojan War
• Achilles and Cycnus
• Caenis
• Lapiths and Centaurs
• Nestor and Hercules
• Death of Achilles

Book 13

• Ajax and Ulysses
• Sack of Troy
• Hecuba, Polyxena, and Polydorus
• Memnon

Little "Aeneid"
• Aeneas
• Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus
• Scylla and Glaucus

Book 14

• Scylla and Glaucus
• Circe
• Picus and Canens
• Apotheosis of Aeneas
Rome
• Pomona and Vertumnus
• Romulus

Book 15

• Numa
• Pythagoras
• Hippolytus
• Cipus
• Aesculapius
• Julius Caesar
Epilogue