Classical works

Another Version of Croesus’ Death Bacchylides, Ode 3 Dionysiac Rites, Demosthenes, On the Crown De Corona (259–260) Gyges, Candaules, and Candaules’ Wife Herodotus, History 1.8–12 Arion and the Dolphin Herodotus, History 1.23–24 Tyrant Polycrates of Samos and his fate Herodotus, History 2.40–43 The Torments of Tantalus Seneca Theogony Hesiod

Proteus Vergil, Georgics 4. 315 The Story of Aristaeus Vergil The Preservation of Romulus and Remus Livy 1.3.10–1.4.8 Cybele and Attis Catullus Dialogues between Menippus and Hermes, and Charon and Menippus Lucian Proteus Homer, Odyssey 4.351–570 The Sun’s Journey Mimnermus The Story of Lycaon Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.211–239

Modern works

 

An Oratorio for Washington Leda and the Swan (1924, 1928) William Butler Yeats To Helen Edgar Allen Poe Past Ruined Ilion (1831) Walter Savage Landor Ode to Psyche (1820) John Keats The Fire Sermon, lines 215–248 (1922) T.S. Eliot, from The Wasteland, 3. A Musical Instrument (1860) Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Song of Apollo (1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley Endymion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pan With Us (1912 or 1913?) Robert Frost On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816) John Keats A Dramatic Poem (1817) George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Manfred lines 60–72 To the Muses (1783) William Blake