Our very next book is The Book of Job. However, if you're reading ahead, here are selections for our discussion of Ovid.

For Ovid's Metamorphoses, I will focus on the selections from the following Books. You'll find the Lombardo edition recommended for class has a useful Analytical Table of Contents:

• Book 1: Invocation, Origin of the World, The Four Ages, The Flood, Deucalion & Pyhrra, Apollo & Daphne, Io
• Book 2: Phaeton & Phoebus, Jupiter & Europa
• Book 3: Cadmus & the Earthborn People, Diana & Actaeon, Echo & Narcissus
• Book 4: Pyramus & Thisbe, Perseus & Andromeda
• Book 5: Hymn to Ceres
• Book 6: Procne & Philomela
• Book 7: Jason & Medea
• Book 8: Minos & the Minotaur, Daedalus & Icarus, Philemon & Baucis
• Book 10: Orpheus & Eurydice, Pygmalion
• Book 11: Midas
• Book 13: The Fall of Troy, Hecuba
• Book 15: The Teachings of Pythagoras, Envoi

More reading by or about Ovid:

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

Heroides (Penguin Classics)

The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics)

The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

An Imaginary Life