Chapter
2. The Treasury of Rhampsinitos
3. The Pharaoh and the Courtesan
CHAPTER 2 GODS AND GHOSTS
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
13. The Rescue of Simonides
15. Rhoikos and the Nymph
16. “The Great God Pan Is Dead!”
21. The Last Princess at Troy
22. The Grateful Dead Man
24. Letter from the Middle of the Earth
27. The Haunted Battlefield
30. Abaris the Hyperborean
31. Aristeas of Prokonnesos
32. Hermotimos of Klazomenai
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
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
47. The Language of Birds
48. The Acquisition of the Sibylline Oracles
50. Bacchus Forsakes Antony
51. Cato Explains a Portent
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
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
68. Sightings of Mermen and Mermaids
69. The Self-Sustaining Beast
70. In Love with a Statue
76. The Laughing Tirynthians
77. The Man Who Loses His Laugh
79. The Lame Man and the Blind Man
83. The Unbreakable Glass Bowl
86. Androkles and the Lion
87. How Ophiteia Gets Its Name
89. The Accidental Killing of a Cat
90. The Children Play King
91. The Children Play Priest
92. The Children Play War
93. A Child Steals from the Goddess
97. Plato Teaches a Tyrant about Democracy
98. The City of Forbidden Expression
99. Ismenias’s Subterfuge
101. The Absentminded Emperor
104. The Judge of the Ants
106. The Cranes of Ibykos
107. The Murder of Mitys of Argos
109. The Trial of the Courtesan Phryne
110. The Problem of Dreamt Sex
112. Abusive Son of an Abusive Father
CHAPTER 4 TRICKSTERS AND LOVERS
113. Trophonios and Agamedes
114. The Dishonest Banker
115. The Joint Depositors
119. The Slaves Take Over
120. The Milesians Hold a Party
122. The Suckling Daughter
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
132. The Widow of Ephesos
135. Aesop and the Master’s Wife
136. The King’s Trusted Friend
138. The Astute Physician
140. Xanthos, Who Longs for His Wife
141. Ariston and His Friend’s Wife
142. Olympians in the Bedroom
CHAPTER 5 ARTISTS AND ATHLETES
146. The Sculptor Polykleitos
147. Models for Helen of Troy
149. Archilochos: Lethal Iambics
150. Hipponax: More Lethal Iambics
152. A Singer’s Compensation
156. The Chorus of Aeschylus’s
157. Sophocles on Himself and Euripides
159. “Mother, I Call to You”
161. How Menander Composes His Plays
162. The First Line of Plato’s Republic
164. The Origin of the Stadium
166. The Origin of Nude Athletes
167. The Origin of Nude Trainers
168. Polymestor the Sprinter
169. Ageus the Long-Distance Runner
171. Eumastas the Strongman
173. Poulydamas the Pancratiast
175. Astylos Angers His Hometown
176. Exainetos Pleases His Hometown
178. The Reluctant Dueler
CHAPTER 6 MEMORABLE WORDS, NOTABLE ACTIONS
179. The Infant Pindar on Mt. Helikon
180. The Infant Plato on Mt. Hymettos
181. Young Demosthenes in Court
183. Themistokles and the Man from Seriphos
185. Timon the Misanthrope
186. The Arrest of Theramenes
187. Socrates’s Hardihood
188. Socrates Ponders a Problem
189. Demosthenes’s Handicaps
192. What Alexander Sleeps Upon
197. “Where Would He Be Now?”
199. The People of Akragas
202. Discussion at Thermopylae
203. Alexander the Great Becomes a God
205. Menekrates, Who Calls Himself Zeus
206. Menekrates-Zeus Writes to King Philip
207. Philip Hosts Menekrates
209. The Woman Who Holds Up the World with Her Finger
210. The House Called Trireme
213. Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
216. “Give Me a Place to Stand, and I’ll Move the World!”
217. Life Is Like the Olympic Games
224. The Discovery of Archimedes’s Tomb
SUMMING UP AND LAST WORDS
225. Counting One’s Blessings
227. Theophrastos’s Lament
228. Vespasian’s Last Words
CHAPTER 7 SAGES AND PHILOSOPHERS
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
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
255. Thales and the Olive Presses
258. Diogenes on Being Laughed At
259. Diogenes and the Lantern
260. The Meeting of Diogenes and Alexander
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
268. Krates and Hipparchia
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
277. The Entrance to Plato’s Classroom
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
HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT
288. The Origin of Human Miseries
289. The Rock of Tantalos
290. The Sword of Damocles
292. Wealth and Happiness
293. Water and a Loaf of Bread
298. The Third Cup of Wine
299. The Different Stages of Life
300. The Different Kinds of People
301. The Different Kinds of Women
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
308. The Ant and the Cicada
310. The Race of the Tortoise and the Hare
311. The Lion and the Mouse
313. The Transformed Weasel
314. The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs
315. The Tortoise That Wishes to Fly
316. The King of the Frogs
318. The Shepherd Who Cries “Wolf!”
320. The Belly and the Feet
321. The Oak and the Reed
322. The Mountain in Labor
323. The Attentive Donkey
CHAPTER 8 NUMSKULLS AND SYBARITES
329. The Foolish Kymaians
330. The Foolish Abderites
340. The Ball in the Well
348. What Does It Taste Like?
351. Caesar’s Soldiers Sing
357. The Covetous Man and the Envious Man
361. The Affliction of Work
362. Excursions to the Country
Appendix. Across the Genres: Ancient Terms, Belief, and Relative Numbers
List of International Stories
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
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