Our first session of the Fall Semester is coming up! These are recommended selections, the "not to be missed" sections that will form the basis for our class discussions of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Prioritize reading the complete books noted below in boldface. If you have time for more reading, read the selected stories from the other books as noted. Of course, read straight through if you have the time and inclination. References are to the new, annotated Rolfe Humphries editions (Indiana UP).

Book One, complete

Book Two, The Story of Phaeton; The Story of Raven; Europa

Book Three, complete

Book Four, The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe; The End of Cadmus; The Story of Perseus

Book Six, complete

Book Seven, The Story of Jason and Medea

Book Eight, The Story of Daedalus and Icarus; The Calydonian Boar; The Story of Baucis and Philemon

Book Nine, The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira; The Story of Hercules' Birth

Book Ten, complete

Book Eleven, The Death of Orpheus; The Story of Midas; The Building of the Walls of Troy; The Story of Thetis

Book Twelve, The Invasion of Troy; Story of the Battle with the Centaurs

Book Thirteen, complete

Book Fourteen, The Deification of Aeneas; Legendary History of Rome; Pomono and Vertumnus

Book Fifteen, complete