1

Odysseus Comes Home

Based on the poem by Homer

Now that King Odysseus has failed to return from the Siege of Troy, the earls of Ithaca are eager to marry his lovely widow.

2

The Doom of the Danaides

By Clay Lane

By day Danaus had to watch his fifty unhappy daughters marry their fifty cruel cousins, but the wedding night was yet to come.

3

The Fall of Icarus

By Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Trapped in Crete with his son Icarus, the craftsman and inventor Daedalus realises a bold and desperate plan to get away.

4

Lover’s Leap

By Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison tells the legend of the great Greek poetess Sappho and the Lover’s Leap.

5

The Shipwreck of Simonides

Based on a fable by Phaedrus

Simonides always believed that a man with a trade was wealthier than a man with a full purse.

6

‘Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts’

By Publius Vergilius Maro

After spending years besieging the city of Troy, the Greek armies suddenly decamp, leaving behind only an enormous wooden sculpture of a horse.