Contents

PROLOGUE: On the Cliff

1: Legends of Aphrodite

2: The Groom Comes

3: Walking Through Fire

4: Gold Flower

5: The Priestess of Isis

6: Messages from the Barbarians

7: Gold, a Shipwreck, and a Dream

8: At the Navel of the Earth

9: Aesop at the Orgy

10: The Pharaoh’s Slave

12: Among the Amazons

13: The Amazoniad

14: The Coming of Pegasus

16: After Hades’ Realm

17: Demeter and Osiris

19: Air, Fire, and Water

20: Of Love and Serpents

21: Among the Centaurs

22: The Eye of Horus

24: After Timas

25: The Binding of the Babe

26: The Curse of Beautiful Men

27: Sacrifice, A Prayer, A Ring

29: The Great White Rock

Author’s Afterword

Talking to Aphrodite

A Biography of Erica Jong