Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
0:Introduction
1:Visual Art
Purwias jumps
Olyseus at sea
Dexileos in action
Dionysus sails through a sea of red
Pentheus and his family
Hades abducts Persephone
A discus-thrower
Medea ponders
2:Homer, Iliad
One snake, nine birds (2.308-21)
Helen speaks her mind (3.399-412)
At the edge (5.434-44)
A stallion unbound (6.495-6, 503-14)
Goddesses kept in line (8.399-406)
Litai limping (9.505-12)
Horses fly (11.280-5, 288-90)
Beast at bay (12.37-53)
The advent of Poseidon (13.17-31)
A wave poised (14.13.-24)
The boar-like Ajax (17.274-87)
Slow survivors (19.40-53)
Apollo's trick (21.601-22.6)
The body brought back (24.703-18)
Leaping and falling from a chariot (16.726-76)
Hector waits (22.90-144)
3:Ovid, Metamorphoses
The fall of Phaethon (2.304-22)
River rage (3.566-71)
Petrification (6.301-12)
Strange seas (7.62-74)
Puzzle (7.772-86)
Isis rescues Iphis (9.780-7)
Better than heaven (10.529-36)
Snake and birds once more (12.11-18, 22-3)
Everything is in motion (15.176-95)
Defying Dis (5.391-424)
Myrrha: small steps and large (10.437-89)
4:Tacitus, Annals
The twentieth redeem themselves (1.51.3-4)
Terrain hinders, not helps (2.17.2-6)
The dead Germanicus is brought back to Italy (3.1.3-4)
Obsequious exodus (4.74.3-4)
Royal trickery (12.4.72-4)
Isolating Agrippina (13.18.3-19.1)
Startling Britons (14.30.1-2)
Fire (15.38.2-6)
Father and daughter on trial (16.32.1-2)
Tiberius meets his end (6.50)
A party does not go well (11.31.2-32)
5:Sophocles, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus
Abandonment (Phil. 268-80, 287-92)
Neoptolemus must be going (Phil. 459-67)
All is to change (Phil. 712-30)
Leaving (Phil. 886-903)
Philoctetes' agonies (Phil. 779-842)
Oedipus sits on a ledge of rock (OC 195-202)
Antigone is carried off (OC 822-47)
Old age assailed from all quarters (OC 1239-48)
A journey robbed of purpose (OC 1393, 1397-1404)
Missing motion (OC 1638-52)
Oedipus arrives (OC 1-52)
6:Parmenides, On Nature
A fast ride with goddesses (B 1 Diels-Kranz, D4 Laks-Most)
Only two roads (B 2, D6)
No splitting reality (B 4, D10)
The goddess can start anywhere (B 5, D5)
A third way not recommended (B 6, D7)
Truth (B 7-8, D8)
Prefatory promises (B 10, D12)
Heavenly births (B 11, D11)
Love and rings (B 12, D14)
The inadequate moon (B 14, D27)
Thought and the limbs (B 16, D51)
7:Seneca, Natural Questions
Throwing stones (1.2.1-2)
Deceptive speed (1.14.2)
Can fire fall? (2.13.1-4)
Two active old men (3.pr.1, 4, 6)
Roundness (4b.3.3-5)
Winds got wrong (5.2)
A typology of earthquakes (6.21.2)
Comets sure and steady (7.23.2-3)
Sailing to war (5.18.5-10)
A whirlwind gets above itself (7.8.1-9.1, 10.2)
8:Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index of Passages and Works of Art
General Index