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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
PART ONE: THE BLUE ROCKS
1 The Halcyon Terrace
2 Murmurings in Beaulieu
3 The Archaeologist and the Engineer
4 Sketches of Villas by the Sea
5 The Barbarians at the Gate
6 First Encounter
7 Conversing in the Enemy Tongue
8 Facing the Red Front Door
9 The Mosaic in the Entrance Hall That Reveals Nothing about the Future
10 “Rejoice”
11 Philemon and Baucis Restored to Youth
12 The Peristyle, a Sepulcher for Adolphe Reinach, Killed in Action
13 “Bring Nothing from the World”
14 My First Paintings
15 The Last Painter of Ancient Greece
PART TWO: ODE TO APOLLO
16 The Mosaic Anchor
17 Dreaming of the Thermal Baths at Kerylos after Spending Several Days in a Monastery from the Middle Ages
18 The Library
19 A Scholarly Conversation in the Front Courtyard
20 Sunlight on the Furniture
21 The Morning When the Most Ancient Music in the World Was Heard in the Oikos
22 All That Remained of Pericles in the Big Kitchen (Where at Last We Dared Talk about the Gold Tiara of Saitapharnes, King of Olbia)
23 A Fake from Odessa?
24 Nighttime in the Peristyle
25 “I Have, Occasionally, Been Mistaken”
26 The Clogged Heating System
27 Echoes in the Garden and among the Rocks
28 The Art of Dining Lying Down
29 The Andron, Where the Reinachs Entertained Kings on Stormy Nights, and Where Theseus Fought the Minotaur
30 Athena on the Staircase
31 “Get Out!”
32 Madame Reinach’s Bedchamber and Her Shower with Its Multiple Jets
33 Ulysses’s Quarters
34 Epilogue: Daedalus, Icarus, and Ariadne
A Few Historical Clarifications and Acknowledgments
Plan of the Villa
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