Preface Prelude: Chaos (Liber I, 1-30) The First Metamorphosis, or Man Is a Wolf to God (Liber I, 210-240) Stone(s) Age (Liber I, 380-415) Daphne''s Fugues (Liber I, 452-567) Io: The Nonmetamorphosis (Liber I, 568-688) Syrinx: Becoming-in-Place, Becoming-Plant (Liber I, 698-712) The Sisters of Phaethon: The Vegetal Shape of Grief (Liber II, 330-365) . and the Animal Shape of Grief: The Swan Song of Cycnus (Liber II, 366-380) Callisto: The Most Beautiful She-Bear (Liber II, 401-530) Crow Trouble (Liber II, 531-632) Another Sort of Metamorphosis: Asclepius and Ocyrhoe (Liber II, 633-675) Battus: Becoming-Stone (Liber II, 676-707) Metamorphosing Into a Statue: Aglauros (Liber II, 708-832) When a God Steals Himself: Europa''s Bull (Liber II, 833-875) Interdeath, Interbirth: Cadmus and the Sowing of Serpent Teeth (Liber III, 1-137) Actaeon: The Revenge of the Hunted (Liber III, 138-252) Fiery Manifestations: Semele (Liber III, 253-315) Trans-Tiresias (Liber III, 316-338) Disembodying Metamorphoses: Echo and Narcissus (Liber III, 339-510) Frenzied Becomings I: Dolphins and Other Marine Motifs Borrowed from Lydian Sailors (Liber III, 572-700) Frenzied Becomings II: Pentheus, or the Voice of Reason as a Wild Boar (Liber III, 511-733) Human Blood/Plant Sap: On Pyramus and Thisbe (Liber IV, 55-166) Mars and Venus: Exposure (Liber IV, 167-189) Shrub Diaries: Leucothoe (Liber IV, 190-273) Two Becoming One: Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, with Some Formulas and Formulations (Liber IV, 274-388) Twilight (Liber IV, 389-415) Metamorphosing Minds: The Madness of Athamas and Ino (Liber IV, 416-562) For "What Remains of Me": Cadmus''s Wife and Becoming-Snake (Liber IV, 563-603) To Become a Mountain: Atlas (Liber IV, 604-663) Andromeda and Perseus: Becoming Free (Liber IV, 664-739) From Living to Dead Corals, from Woods to Wood (Liber IV, 740-764) Pulped Nonfiction (Liber V, 1-156) Perseus, Again: Heart of Stone (Liber V, 157-250) Becoming Liquid: A Riddle (Liber V, 255-267) Pyreneus: Excerpts from a Self-Help Book (Liber V, 268-293) 9/IX: The Daughters of Euippe (Liber V, 294-319) An Island Meditation (Liber V, 320-361) Tearful Metamorphoses: Cyane (Liber V, 410-437, 462-470) Seasonal Existence: Proserpina''s Questions (Liber V, 385-409, 564-571) Arethusa: Becoming the Other (Liber V, 572-641) For Arachne: A Few Threads to Follow (Liber VI, 1-145) Niobe: Becoming Scarce (Liber VI, 146-312) Becoming Abundant: Lycian Peasants (Liber VI, 313-381) Skinned: Marsyas''s Grammar Lesson (Liber VI, 382-400) Becoming Whole: Pelops (Liber VI, 401-411) Tereus & Co.: A Whirlwind of Metamorphoses--Fire, Snakes, Autophagy, Birds (Liber VI, 412-674) Changing Strategies, Metamorphosing Moods: A Nearly Tautogrammic Reflection (Liber VI, 675-721) Proverbial Wisdom: Medea (Liber VII, 1-158) The Art of Becoming Immortal (Liber VII, 159-293) The Art of Becoming Mortal (Liber VII, 294-349) Up and Down: Air and Earth--A Meditation (Liber VII, 350-403) The Capture of Cerberus (Liber VII, 404-452) Getting Infected: Pandemic Diaries (Liber VII, 453-613) Cross-Species Immigrants: An Interrogation Transcript (Liber VII, 614-660) Becoming Unfaithful: Cephalus and Procris (Liber VII, 661-865) Dreams from My Owner: A Memoir (Liber VIII, 1-151) Ariadne Variations (Liber VIII, 152-182) How to Soar Above the Labyrinth of Your Mind: Icarus''s Wings (Liber VIII, 183-235) To Perdix, the Inventor (Liber VIII, 236-259) Diana''s Boar: A Phytological Ritual for the Animals That We Are (Liber VIII, 260-450) Meleager: Becoming Ashes (Liber VIII, 451-545) Island Afterlife: Perimele (Liber VIII, 546-610) Tree Hospitality: An Exegesis (Liber VIII, 611-724) Sometimes: Proteus, the Daughter of Erysichthon, and Erysichthon (Liber VIII, 730-874) Phallic Metamorphoses (Liber IX, 1-97) Flooding: Reflections from the Event (Liber IX, 98-133) Clothes-Skin, Skin-Clothes: Hercules (Liber IX, 134-272) Becoming Atmospheric: Lichas (Liber IX, 211-229) Notes on Position: Alcmene (Liber IX, 273-323) Dryope: Becoming a Cut (Plant) (Liber IX, 324-393) Becoming Young (Again), Growing Older: Iolaus and the Sons of Callirrhoe (Liber IX, 394-438) Byblis: The Externalization of Desire (Liber IX, 439-665) The Trans/Formations of Iphis (Liber IX, 666-797) Don''t Look Back: Orpheus and Eurydice (Liber X, 1-85) Coming, Becoming--A Cypress Tree (Liber X, 86-142) Of Plants and Planets, of Stars and Seeds: Ganymede and Hyacinthus (Liber X, 143-219) Sin and Crime: Venus and Cerastae (Liber X, 220-242) Pygmalion, the Morning After (Liber X, 243-297) Myrrha: The Thrashing About of "Nature" (Liber X, 298-502) Running: Atalanta and Hippomenes (Liber X, 503-707) Adonis, Adonai, Anemone Coronaria (Liber X, 708-739) Orpheus and His Critics (Liber XI, 1-84) The Midas Touch: Script for a Commercial (Liber XI, 85-193) Building-with, Building-against: How Troy Fell Before the Fall of Troy (Liber XI, 194-220) The Tenacity of Substance: Peleus and Thetis (Liber XI, 221-265) A Cycle of Violence: Daedalion (Liber XI, 266-345) Becoming a Fossil: The Wolf of Nereid (Liber XI, 346-409) Being No More: Alcyone and Ceyx (Liber XI, 410-748) The Infuriating Destiny of Becoming an Immortal Animal (Liber XI, 410-748) A Happy End: Iphigenia (Liber XII, 1-39) "Dwelling," Online (Liber XII, 40-63) On Deicide: Cycnus and Achilles (Liber XII, 64-145) Tra-ta-ta: Trauma, Transition--Caenis/Caeneus and Neptune (Liber XII, 146-209) Lapiths and Centaurs: Weaponization and Disfiguration (Liber XII, 210-535) Periclymenus: A Parody of a Parody, or in the Footsteps of Proteus and Thetis (Liber XII, 536-579) The Death of Achilles in Fragments (Liber XII, 580-630) Weapon-Oriented Ontology (WOO): The Arms of Achilles (Liber XIII, 1-398) Hecuba''s Lament: The Howl of the Place (Liber XIII, 399-575) Becoming-Many: Memnon (Liber XIII, 576-622) The Daughters of Anius: A Blessing (Liber XIII, 623-647) The Daughters of Orion: A Blood Offering for the Wounded Earth (Liber XIII, 648-699) Polyphemus and Galatea: Land and Sea (Liber XIII, 700-897) Phytomorphosis: Glaucus (Liber XIII, 898-969; Liber XIV, 1-79) The Sibyl''s Monologue (Liber XIV, 80-153) Becoming-Foreign-to-Yourself: Achaemenides (Liber XIV, 154-222) Aeolus: The Ruler of the Winds (Liber XIV, 223-319) Picus, or the Keyboard Pecker (Liber XIV, 320-434) Acmon Turning Into a Bird: A Joke (Liber XIV, 435-511) An Apulian Shepherd: Bitter Words, Bitter Fruits (Liber XIV, 512-565) Re: A Funereal Hymn for Aeneas (Liber XIV, 566-608) Vertumnus, Vertimus: The Turn of Becoming (Liber XIV, 609-697) Marble Thoughts: Anaxarete (Liber XIV, 698-764) The Apotheosis of Romulus: Blood for Celestial Peace (Liber XIV, 765-851) Homeland Insecurity: Myscelus (Liber XV, 1-59) A Vegan Feast of Words: Pythagoras (Liber XV, 60-390) The Phoenix Memo (Liber XV, 391-478) Running Out of Words: A Wounded Body Politic--Hippolytus (Liber XV, 391-546) Being Double: Cipus (Liber XV, 547-621) Orbi et Urbi: To the World and to the City--The Approximations of Power (Liber XV, 622-744) The Indigestibility of Fate (Liber XV, 745-870) The Work Undone: Ovid (Liber XV, 871-879).