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• v • The Golden Age (Classical Stories: Heroic Tales from Ancient Greece and Rome) • (1996) • essay by Mike Ashley
• vii • The Fiction of History • (1979) • essay by Mary Renault
• 1 • Paris and Helen (excerpt from Helen) • (1925) • short fiction by Edward Lucas White
• 17 • No Place Like Home • (1998) • short story by Tom Holt
• 25 • The Thread • (1980) • short story by Vera Chapman
• 36 • Where Is the Bird of Fire? • [The Latium Trilogy] • (1962) • novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
• 81 • The Story of Gyges (excerpt from The History of Herodotus) • (1858) • short fiction by Herodotus
• 85 • The Slave of Marathon • [Grey Maiden] • (1926) • novelette by Arthur D. Howden Smith
• 105 • The Kidnapping (excerpt from The Gate of Yesterday) • (1960) • short fiction by Margery Lawrence
• 124 • The Wearer of Purple • (1996) • short story by Pierre Louÿs (trans. of L'homme de pourpre 1903)
• 143 • The Gods Play for High Stakes • (1951) • novelette by Langston Day
• 167 • The Horse from Thessaly • (1971) • short story by Mary Renault
• 176 • The Banquet of Death • (1996) • short story by Peter Tremayne
• 195 • The Preparation (excerpt from The Conquered) • (1923) • short fiction by Naomi Mitchison
• 211 • The Mountain Wolves • (1996) • novelette by John Maddox Roberts
• 245 • The Rise of Augustus (excerpt from Augustus) • (1989) • short fiction by Allan Massie
• 264 • One of Cleopatra's Nights • (1928) • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of Une nuit de Cléopâtre 1838)
• 294 • The Chariot Race (excerpt from Ben-Hur, or The Days of the Messiah) • (1880) • short fiction by Lew Wallace
• 313 • Caligula the God (excerpt from I, Claudius) • (1934) • short fiction by Robert Graves
• 327 • Betrayed • (1996) • short story by Juliet Dymoke
• 344 • Captain Leopard • (1996) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp
• 351 • Sword of Freedom • (1996) • short story by E. C. Tubb
• 360 • The Last Letter • (1996) • short story by Derek Wilson
• 379 • The Last Day of Pompeii (excerpt) • (1834) • short fiction by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• 405 • Marcellus Takes the Biscuit • (1945) • short story by Leopold Spero
• 419 • Fortunatus • (1996) • novelette by R. H. Stewart
• 446 • The Walking Walls of Rome • (1996) • novelette by Keith Taylor
• 467 • Æolf the Martyr • (1898) • short story by A. W. Marchmont
• 473 • The Temple of Death • (1903) • short story by A. C. Benson
• 487 • The Great World and the Small • (1993) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• 499 • The Crown of the Golden Chain • (1901) • short story by Max Pemberton