Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

Preface

Episode 0 · 33:21

Dialogue I: Prometheus obtains his release from Zeus by a prophecy

Episode 1 · 3:13

Dialogue II: Zeus threatens to put Eros in fetters

Episode 2 · 3:13

Dialogue III: Zeus orders Hermes to slay Argus, and to conduct Io to Egypt

Episode 3 · 2:04

Dialogue IV: Zeus instructs Ganymedes as to the nature of his duties in heaven

Episode 4 · 7:07

Dialogue V: Hera upbraids Zeus with his love for Ganymedes

Episode 5 · 6:09

Dialogue VI: Ixion makes love to Hera

Episode 6 · 6:27

Dialogue VII: Hephæstus recounts to Apollo the actions of the infant prodigy, Hermes

Episode 7 · 4:12

Dialogue VIII: Hephæstus assists at the parturition of Zeus and the birth of Athena

Episode 8 · 3:38

Dialogue IX: Hermes refuses Poseidon admission to Zeus, and assigns as the reason the lying-in of the king of gods and men with Bacchus

Episode 9 · 3:53

Dialogue X: Hermes conveys to Helios the order of Zeus

Episode 10 · 3:43

Dialogue XI: Aphrodite charges Selene with her love for Endymion, and, at the same time, laments the tyranny of her son, Eros, over herself

Episode 11 · 2:47

Dialogue XII: Aphrodite upbraids Eros for his mischievous conduct in the past, and cautions him for the future

Episode 12 · 3:26

Dialogue XIII: Asklepius and Herakles quarrel on a question of precedence in heaven

Episode 13 · 3:40

Dialogue XIV: Apollo recounts to hermes the manner of the death of Hyakinthus, and his grief for the same

Episode 14 · 3:29

Dialogue XV: Hermes and Apollo envy the deformed Hephæstus the possession of his beautiful wives

Episode 15 · 4:20

Dialogue XVI: Hera and Leto dispute about the merits of their respective children

Episode 16 · 4:17

Dialogue XVII: Hermes narrates to Apollo the adultery of Ares and Aphrodite, and the revenge of Hephæstus

Episode 17 · 4:19

Dialogue XVIII: Hera denounces, and Zeus defends, the character of Bacchus

Episode 18 · 3:37

Dialogue XIX: Eros explains to his mother why he does not assail Athena, the Musæ, and Artemis

Episode 19 · 3:37

Dialogue XX: The Judgment of Paris

Episode 20 · 23:15

Dialogue XXI: Ares ridicules the threat of Zeus, and the chain let down from heaven

Episode 21 · 2:59

Dialogue XXII: Pan urges his claims to be the son of Hermes, who is unwilling to admit his paternity

Episode 22 · 6:15

Dialogue XXIII: Apollo remarks to Bacchus on the heterogeneousness of Aphrodite's children; while Bacchus exposes the character of Priapus

Episode 23 · 3:41

Dialogue XXIV: Hermes complains to his mother of the multiplicity of his employments

Episode 24 · 4:51

Dialogue XXV: Helios, accused by Zeus of rash conduct in giving up his chariot to his son, obtains a conditional pardon

Episode 25 · 4:17

Dialogue XXVI: Apollo asks Hermes to point out to him, of the twin dioscuri which is Kastor and which Polydeukes; and takes the opportunity of criticising their divine pretensions

Episode 26 · 3:32

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