Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Other Books by the Translators viii
5. Contents ix
6. The Poems
7. Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto 3
8. Thermopylae 4
9. Growing in Spirit 5
10. Waiting for the Barbarians 6
11. Trojans 8
12. King Dimitrios 9
13. Antony's Ending 10
14. The Footsteps 11
15. The City 12
16. The Satrapy 13
17. The Ides of March 14
18. Things Fulfilled 15
19. The God Abandons Antony 16
20. Ionic 17
21. Ithaka 18
22. Philhellene 20
23. Alexandrian Kings 21
24. Very Seldom 23
25. As Much as You Can 24
26. Returning from Greece 25
27. Exiles 26
28. Theodotos 27
29. He Swears 28
30. Morning Sea 29
31. Orophernis 30
32. The Battle of Magnesia 32
33. Manuel Komninos 34
34. The Distress of Selefkidis 35
35. For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610 36
36. One of Their Gods 37
37. Half an Hour 38
38. Kaisarion 39
39. Body, Remember . . . 40
40. Nero's Respite 41
41. Envoys from Alexandria 42
42. Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655 43
43. The Afternoon Sun 44
44. Of the Jews (A.D. 50) 45
45. Of Dimitrios Sotir (162-150 B.C.) 46
46. If Actually Dead 48
47. Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400) 49
48. Dareios 50
49. Anna Komnina 52
50. An Exiled Byzantine Nobleman who Composes Verses 53
51. Alexander Valas' Favorite 54
52. Dimaratos 55
53. From the School of the Renowned Philosopher 57
54. Julian Seeing Contempt 58
55. Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Kommagini 59
56. In Alexandria, 31 B . C 60
57. John Kantakuzinos Triumphs 61
58. Of Colored Glass 62
59. The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Life 63
60. Kleitos' Illness 64
61. In a Township of Asia Minor 65
62. A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen 66
63. Julian and the Antiochians 67
64. Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old 68
65. A Young Poet in His Twenty-Fourth Year 69
66. In Sparta 70
67. In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C. 71
68. A Prince from Western Libya 73
69. Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340 74
70. Alexander Jannaios and Alexandra 77
71. Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians 78
72. He Asked About the Quality 79
73. To Have Taken the Trouble 80
74. In the Year 200 B . C 82
75. On the Outskirts of Antioch 84
76. Notes 86
77. Biographical Note 92
78. Reviews 99