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Index
Title Page
Copyright Information
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
THE OLYMPIAN GODS
The Phrases
An Academy
Achilles Heel
An Adonis
To be Under the Aegis
Aeolian Harp
Alexandrian Elegance
An Amazon
An Aphrodisiac
Apician Pleasures
Apple of Discord
An Arachnid
An Arcadian Idyll
Archimedes Screw
An Argonaut
To be Argus-Eyed
A Faithful Argus
Aristophanic Humour
In the Arms of Morpheus
Atlantean Shoulders
Atoms and Elements
A Bacchanalian Orgy
A Barbarian
Bellerophonic Letter
To Bestride Something Like a Colossus
Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts
Beware the Ides of March
Bread and Circuses
To Burn One’s Boats
Byzantine Regulations
Caesarean Section
Caesar’s Wife Must be Above Suspicion
A Calendar
THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR
A Cassandra
Catharsis
Catonian Severity
Cereals
A Chimera
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ciceronian Eloquence
ROMAN NAMES
To Cleanse the Augean Stables
A Cleopatra’s Nose
GREAT WOMEN OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Cloud Cuckoo Land
A Corinthian
Cornucopia
To Cross the Rubicon
To Cut the Gordian Knot
Cyclopean Walls
Cynical Indifference
Czar
Delphic Response
GREAT ORACLES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Deus ex Machina
A Diomedean Exchange
Draconian Regulations
Drink from the Waters of Lethe
THE FIVE RIVERS OF THE UNDERWORLD
Dulce et Decorum Est pro Patria Mori
Echo
Electra Complex
Epic
EPIC POETRY THROUGH THE AGES
Erotica
Et Tu, Brute?
Eureka!
Europe
Fabian Tactics
A Fable
COMMON EXPRESSIONS FROM AESOP’S FABLES
The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships
A Faithful Penelope
To Fall on One’s Sword
What the Fates Have in Store
To Fiddle While Rome Burns
Flora and Fauna
To Fly too Close to the Sun
A Forum
The Gaia Hypothesis
Gladiatorial Atmosphere
TYPES OF GLADIATOR
Golden Age
A Gorgon Stare
A Goth
A Gymnasium
Halcyon Days
A Harpy
To Hector
Hedonism
Herculean Task
The twelve labours of Heracles
A Hermaphrodite
Hippocratic Oath
Hoi Polloi
To be Like Horatius at the Bridge
An Act of Hubris
Hydra-Headed
I Came. I Saw. I Conquered.
Janus-Faced
By Jove
Judgement of Paris
Junoesque Figure
Labyrinth
A Lotus Eater
A Lucullan Feast
A Lysistrata Strategy
To be a Maecenas
To Run a Marathon
Martial Spirit
Mausoleum
A Mentor
A Mephitic Swamp
Mercurial
Midas Touch
Money
To be Somebody’s Muse
THE NINE MUSES
A Narcissist
Nectar and Ambrosia
A Nemesis
A Nestor
Nymphomania
The Nymphs
Ocean
THE SEAS OF GREECE
To Go on an Odyssey
Oedipus Complex
An Olympic Sport
An Orpheus
To be Ostracized
To Open a Pandora’s Box
Panpipes
ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
A Pantomime
To Pass Under the Yoke
GREAT ROMAN MILITARY DEFEATS
Philippic
To Pile Pelion Upon Ossa
A Platonic Relationship
To Be in a Priapic Condition
Promethean Cunning
To be Protean
A Pygmalion
Pyrrhic Victory
Python
A Red-Letter Day
To Rest on Your Laurels
A Rhetorical Question
Rich as Croesus
A Rostrum
To Sail Between Scylla and Charybdis
Sapphic Practices
Saturnalian Revels
Saturnine
A Shirt of Nessus
Siren Voices
A Sisyphean Task
Socratic method
Sophistry
A Sop to Cerberus
To Sow Dragon’s Teeth
I’m Spartacus
Spartan Conditions
A Sphinx-like Smile
To Spring from One’s Head Fully Formed
A Stentorian Roar
Stoic Endurance
To Strike Like a Thunderbolt
To be Struck by Cupid’s Arrow
Stygian Gloom
To Suffer the Sorrows of Niobe
A Sword of Damocles
A Sybarite
To be Tantalizing
Terpsichorean Talent
To be a Titan
THE TWELVE TITANS
A Tragedy
A Triton Among Minnows
DEITIES OF THE SEA
A Triumph
A Trojan Horse
A Typhoon
A Vandal
Venereal Disease
Volcanic Eruption
To Go on Winged Feet
To Work Like a Trojan
THE HEROES AT TROY
A Zephyr
THE FOUR WINDS
Signs of the Zodiac
Timeline of Greece and Rome
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