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• vi • The Penguin Classics • (unknown) • essay by uncredited
• viii • Preface (The Penguin Classics Book) • essay by Henry Eliot
• x • The Penguin Classics • essay by Henry Eliot
• xi •  The Odyssey (cover) • (1946) • interior artwork by William Grimmond (variant of cover art for The Odyssey)
• xiii •  Hell (cover) • (1949) • interior artwork by uncredited
• xvi • The Other Penguins • essay by Henry Eliot
• xvii •  Worzel Gummidge, or The Scarecrow of Scatterbrook (cover) • (1941) • interior artwork by Elizabeth Aldridge (variant of cover art for Worzel Gummidge, or The Scarecrow of Scatterbrook)
• xviii •  Wuthering Heights (cover) • (1965) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 3 • The Fertile Crescent • essay by Henry Eliot
• 3 •   Review: The Epic of Gilgamesh by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 3 •   Review: The Epic of Gilgamesh by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 3 •  The Epic of Gilgamesh (cover) • (1960) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 3 •  The Epic of Gilgamesh (cover) [2] • (2000) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 3 •   Review: Writings from Ancient Egypt by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 3 •  Writings from Ancient Egypt (cover) • (2016) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 4 •   Review: The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Brian Copenhaver • review by Henry Eliot
• 4 •  The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment (cover) • (2016) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 5 •   Review: The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters by Scott G. Bruce • review by Henry Eliot
• 5 •  The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters (cover) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 7 • Ancient India • essay by Henry Eliot
• 7 •   Review: Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 7 •  Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook (cover) • (1975) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 7 •   Review: The Mahabharata by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 7 •   Review: The Mahābhārata by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 7 •  The Mahabharata (cover) • (2001) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 7 •  The Mahābhārata (cover) • (2009) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 8 • Kālidāsa • essay by Henry Eliot
• 8 •   Review: The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems by
  Kālidāsa^?Kalidasa
  • review by Henry Eliot
• 8 •  The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems (cover) • (1991) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 8 •   Review: Rāma the Steadfast: An Early Form of the Rāmāyaṇa by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 8 •  Rāma the Steadfast: An Early Form of the Rāmāyaṇa (cover) • (2006) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 9 • Valmiki • essay by Henry Eliot
• 9 •  The Ramayana (cover) • (1977) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 9 •   Review: The Rāmāyana by Valmiki • review by Henry Eliot
• 9 •  The Rāmāyana (cover) • (2009) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 9 • Viṣṇu Śarma • essay by Henry Eliot
• 9 •  The Panćatantra (cover) • (1995) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 9 •   Review: The Panćatantra by
  Viṣṇu Śarma^?Visnu Sarma
  • review by Henry Eliot
• 12 • Ancient China • essay by Henry Eliot
• 14 •  The Book of Chuang Tzu (cover) • (2006) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 14 •   Review: The Book of Chuang Tzu by Chuang Tzu • review by Henry Eliot
• 16 • Archaic Greece • essay by Henry Eliot
• 16 • Homer • essay by Henry Eliot
• 16 •   Review: The Iliad by Homer • review by Henry Eliot
• 16 •  The Iliad (cover) • (1950) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 16 •  The Iliad (cover) • (1987) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 16 •  The Iliad (cover) • (1992) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 16 •  The Iliad (cover) • (1996) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 16 •  The Anger of Achilles: The Iliad (cover) • (2009) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 17 •  The Odyssey (cover) [2] • (1946) • interior artwork by William Grimmond (variant of cover art for The Odyssey)
• 17 •  The Odyssey (cover) • (2006) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 17 •   Review: The Odyssey by Homer • review by Henry Eliot
• 17 •  The Odyssey (roundel) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 17 •   Review: The Homeric Hymns by Homer • review by Henry Eliot
• 17 •  The Homeric Hymns (cover) • (2003) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 17 • E. V. Rieu • essay by Henry Eliot
• 18 • Hesiod • essay by Henry Eliot
• 18 •   Review: Works and Days by Hesiod • review by Henry Eliot
• 18 •  Works and Days (cover) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 18 •  Hesiod and Theognis (cover) • (1973) • interior artwork by Andrea Mantegna (variant of cover art for Hesiod and Theognis)
• 18 •   Review: Hesiod and Theognis by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 18 • Sappho • essay by Henry Eliot
• 18 •  Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (cover) • (2009) • interior artwork by Edith Handler (variant of cover art for Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments)
• 18 •   Review: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho • review by Henry Eliot
• 19 • Aesop • essay by Henry Eliot
• 19 •  Fables of Aesop • (1954) • interior artwork by Brian Robb
• 19 •   Review: The Complete Fables by Aesop • review by Henry Eliot
• 19 •  Fables of Aesop (cover) • (1954) • interior artwork by Brian Robb (variant of cover art for Fables of Aesop)
• 19 •  The Complete Fables (cover) • (1998) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 19 • Pindar • essay by Henry Eliot
• 19 •  The Odes of Pindar (cover) • (1969) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 19 •   Review: The Odes of Pindar by Pindar • review by Henry Eliot
• 20 • Classical Greece • essay by Henry Eliot
• 20 • Drama • essay by Henry Eliot
• 20 • Aeschylus • essay by Henry Eliot
• 20 •   Review: The Oresteia by Aeschylus • review by Henry Eliot
• 20 •  The Oresteian Trilogy (cover) • (1956) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 20 •  The Oresteia (cover) • (1977) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 20 •  Prometheus and Other Plays (cover) • (1961) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 20 •  The Persians and Other Plays (cover) • (2009) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 20 •   Review: The Persians and Other Plays by Aeschylus • review by Henry Eliot
• 21 • Sophocles • essay by Henry Eliot
• 21 •  The Theban Plays (cover) • (1947) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 21 •  The Three Theban Plays (cover) • (1984) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 21 •   Review: The Theban Plays by Sophocles • review by Henry Eliot
• 21 •  Electra and Other Plays (cover) • (1953) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 21 •  Electra and Other Plays (cover) • (2008) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 21 •   Review: Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles • review by Henry Eliot
• 22 • Euripides • essay by Henry Eliot
• 22 •   Review: Three Plays by Euripides • review by Henry Eliot
• 22 •  Three Plays (cover) • (1953) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 22 •   Review: Medea and Other Plays by Euripides • review by Henry Eliot
• 22 •  Alcestis and Other Plays (cover) • (1996) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 22 •   Review: Medea and Other Plays by Euripides • review by Henry Eliot
• 22 •  Medea and Other Plays (cover) • (1963) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 22 •  Electra and Other Plays (cover) • (1998) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 22 •   Review: Electra and Other Plays by Euripides • review by Henry Eliot
• 23 •   Review: Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides • review by Henry Eliot
• 23 •  Orestes and Other Plays (cover) • (1972) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 23 •   Review: The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides • review by Henry Eliot
• 23 •  The Bacchae and Other Plays (cover) • (1954) • interior artwork by Berthold Wolpe (variant of cover art for The Bacchae and Other Plays)
• 23 •  Two Satyr Plays (cover) • (1957) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 23 •  Heracles and Other Plays (cover) • (2002) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 23 •   Review: Heracles and Other Plays by Euripides • review by Henry Eliot
• 23 •  The Bacchae and Other Plays (cover) • (2005) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 23 •   Review: The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides • review by Henry Eliot
• 23 •   Review: Greek Tragedy by Shomit Dutta • review by Henry Eliot
• 23 •  Greek Tragedy (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 24 • Aristophanes • essay by Henry Eliot
• 24 •   Review: Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes • review by Henry Eliot
• 24 •  The Acharnians / The Clouds / Lysistrata (cover) • (1973) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 24 •  The Frogs and Other Plays (cover) • (1964) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 24 •   Review: The Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes • review by Henry Eliot
• 24 •   Review: The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes • review by Henry Eliot
• 24 •  The Knights, Peace, Wealth, The Birds, The Assemblywomen (cover) • (1978) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 24 •  Classical Comedy (cover) • (2006) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 24 •   Review: Classical Comedy by Erich Segal • review by Henry Eliot
• 25 • Philosophy • essay by Henry Eliot
• 26 • Plato • essay by Henry Eliot
• 27 •   Review: The Republic by Plato • review by Henry Eliot
• 27 •  The Republic (cover) • (1955) • interior artwork by Dennis Hall (variant of cover art for The Republic)
• 27 •  Republic (cover) • (2012) • interior artwork by
  Василий Кандинский^?Vasiliy Kandinskiy
  (variant of cover art for Republic)
• 28 •  Timaeus (cover) • (1965) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 28 •   Review: Timaeus and Critias by Plato • review by Henry Eliot
• 29 • Aristotle • essay by Henry Eliot
• 30 •   Review: Poetics by Aristotle • review by Henry Eliot
• 30 •  Poetics (cover) • (1996) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 34 • Hellenistic Greece • essay by Henry Eliot
• 34 • Menander • essay by Henry Eliot
• 34 •  The Characters / Plays and Fragments (cover) • (1967) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 34 •  Plays and Fragments (cover) • (1987) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 34 •   Review: Plays and Fragments by Menander • review by Henry Eliot
• 35 • Apollonius of Rhodes • essay by Henry Eliot
• 35 •  The Voyage of Argo (cover) • (1959) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 35 •  Jason and the Argonauts (cover) • (2014) • interior artwork by Angie Wang (variant of cover art for Jason and the Argonauts)
• 35 •   Review: The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes • review by Henry Eliot
• 35 •  The Greek Alexander Romance (cover) • (1991) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 35 •   Review: The Greek Alexander Romance by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 37 • The Republic • essay by Henry Eliot
• 37 •  Roman Readings (cover) • (1958) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 37 •   Review: Latin Literature by Michael Grant (1914-2004) • review by Henry Eliot
• 37 •  Roman Literature (cover) • (1958) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 37 • Plautus • essay by Henry Eliot
• 37 •  The Pot of Gold / The Prisoners / The Brothers Menaechmus / The Swaggering Soldier / Pseudolus (cover) • (1965) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 37 •   Review: The Pot of Gold / The Prisoners / The Brothers Menaechmus / The Swaggering Soldier / Pseudolus by Plautus • review by Henry Eliot
• 38 •   Review: The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus • review by Henry Eliot
• 38 •  The Rope and Other Plays (cover) • (1964) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 43 • The Augustans • essay by Henry Eliot
• 43 • Virgil • essay by Henry Eliot
• 43 •  The Pastoral Poems (cover) • (1949) • interior artwork by William Grimmond (variant of cover art for The Pastoral Poems)
• 43 •  The Eclogues (cover) • (1984) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 43 •   Review: The Eclogues by Virgil • review by Henry Eliot
• 44 •   Review: The Georgics by Virgil • review by Henry Eliot
• 44 •  The Georgics (cover) • (1982) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 44 •  The Georgics: A Poem of the Land (cover) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 44 •   Review: The Aeneid by Virgil • review by Henry Eliot
• 44 •  The Aeneid (cover) • (1956) • interior artwork by George Buday (variant of cover art for The Aeneid)
• 44 •  The Aeneid (cover) • (1985) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 44 •  The Aeneid (cover) • (1991) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 44 •  Virgil's Aeneid (cover) • (1997) • interior artwork by Sir Godfrey Kneller (variant of cover art for Virgil's Aeneid)
• 44 •  The Aeneid (cover) • (2010) • interior artwork by David Cain (variant of cover art for The Aeneid)
• 45 • Horace • essay by Henry Eliot
• 45 •   Review: The Satires of Horace and Persius by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 45 •  The Satires of Horace and Persius (cover) • (1973) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 45 •  The Odes of Horace (cover) • (1967) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 45 •  The Complete Odes and Epodes with the Centennial Hymn (cover) • (1983) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 45 •   Review: The Complete Odes and Epodes with the Centennial Hymn by Horace • review by Henry Eliot
• 46 • Ovid • essay by Henry Eliot
• 47 •   Review: Metamorphoses by Ovid • review by Henry Eliot
• 47 •  The Metamorphoses of Ovid (cover) • (1955) • interior artwork by John Diebel (variant of cover art for The Metamorphoses of Ovid)
• 47 •  Ovid's Metamorphoses (cover) • (2002) • interior artwork by Antonio del Pollaiuolo (variant of cover art for Ovid's Metamorphoses)
• 47 •  Metamorphoses (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by Gianlorenzo Bernini (variant of cover art for Metamorphoses)
• 48 • Seneca • essay by Henry Eliot
• 48 •   Review: Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca • review by Henry Eliot
• 48 •  Four Tragedies and Octavia (cover) • (1966) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 48 •  Phaedra and Other Plays (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Adolfo de Carolis (variant of cover art for Phaedra and Other Plays)
• 49 •  The Satyricon and the Fragments (cover) • (1965) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 49 • Petronius • essay by Henry Eliot
• 49 •   Review: The Satyricon by Petronius • review by Henry Eliot
• 49 •   Review: Natural History: A Selection by Pliny the Elder • review by Henry Eliot
• 49 •  Natural History: A Selection (cover) • (1991) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 51 • Betty Radice • essay by Henry Eliot
• 52 •   Review: Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World by Maria Tatar • review by Henry Eliot
• 52 •  Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World (cover) • (2017) • interior artwork by
  Mirko Hanák^?Mirko Hanak
  (variant of cover art for Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World)
• 53 •  The Transformations of Lucius Otherwise Known as the Golden Ass (cover) • (1998) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 53 •  The Golden Ass; or, Metamorphoses (cover) • (1998) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 53 • Apuleius • essay by Henry Eliot
• 53 •   Review: The Golden Ass; or, Metamorphoses by Apuleius • review by Henry Eliot
• 54 • Roman Greece • essay by Henry Eliot
• 54 • Plutarch • essay by Henry Eliot
• 56 •   Review: Greek Fiction by Helen Morales • review by Henry Eliot
• 56 •  Greek Fiction (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Horne Shepherd (variant of cover art for Greek Fiction)
• 57 • Lucian • essay by Henry Eliot
• 57 •  Satirical Sketches (cover) • (1961) • interior artwork by Cecil Keeling (variant of cover art for Satirical Sketches)
• 57 •  Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 57 •  Satirical Sketches (woodcut) • (1961) • interior artwork by Cecil Keeling (variant of cover art for Satirical Sketches)
• 57 •   Review: Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches by Lucian • review by Henry Eliot
• 78 • Fiction • essay by Henry Eliot
• 78 •  The Earliest English Poems (cover) • (1966) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 78 •   Review: The First Poems in English by Michael Alexander (translator) • review by Henry Eliot
• 78 •   Review: Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Jeffrey Gantz • review by Henry Eliot
• 78 •  Early Irish Myths and Sagas (cover) • (1981) • interior artwork by Daniel Maclise (variant of cover art for Early Irish Myths and Sagas)
• 79 •  Beowulf (cover) • (1957) • interior artwork by Berthold Wolpe (variant of cover art for Beowulf)
• 79 •  Beowulf (cover) • (1973) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 79 •  Beowulf: A Glossed Text (cover) • (1995) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 79 •   Review: Beowulf by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 79 •   Review: A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literature by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson • review by Henry Eliot
• 79 •  A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literature (cover) • (1971) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 79 •  The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (cover) • (1970) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 79 •  The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (cover) • (2012) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 79 •   Review: The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry by Patrick Crotty • review by Henry Eliot
• 80 •  The Song of Roland (cover) • (1957) • interior artwork by N. Lambourne (variant of cover art for The Song of Roland)
• 80 •  The Song of Roland (cover) • (1990) • interior artwork by Loyset Liedet (variant of cover art for The Song of Roland)
• 80 •   Review: The Song of Roland by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 80 •   Review: The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse by Robert Crawford (1959-) and Mick Imlah • review by Henry Eliot
• 80 •  The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (cover) • (1970) • interior artwork by Henry Raeburn (variant of cover art for The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse)
• 80 •  The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (cover) • (2006) • interior artwork by Kate Whiteford (variant of cover art for The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse 2000)
• 81 • Beroul • essay by Henry Eliot
• 81 •   Review: The Romance of Tristan and The Tale of Tristan's Madness by Alan S. Fedrick • review by Henry Eliot
• 81 •  The Romance of Tristan and The Tale of Tristan's Madness (cover) • (1970) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 81 • Chrétien de Troyes • essay by Henry Eliot
• 81 •  Arthurian Romances (cover) • (1991) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 81 •   Review: Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes • review by Henry Eliot
• 81 •  The Táin (cover) • (2007) • interior artwork by Rebecca Canavan (variant of cover art for The Táin)
• 81 •   Review: The Táin by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot
• 82 •  The Mabinogion (cover) • (1976) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 82 •   Review: The Mabinogion by uncredited • review by Henry Eliot