Introduction
These are the Dog Days : an introdogtion
Cave-canem : dogs in classica life and literature
A doggodly digest : who's who in myth
Latro, latras, latrat : a note on language
Dogface! : Homer's Iliad
Argus the Dog : Homer's Odyssey
Suckled by wolves : Virgil's Aeneid
Changing dogs : Ovid's Metamorphoses
It's a dog's life : the Ancient Greek Tragedians
Hounded by love : Catullus and Sappho
A painted dog : the beginning of history
Doggy style? : sex and sewers

The Greeks and the Romans laid the foundations of so much of what we read, listen to and watch today, from the baked pies of Game of Thrones to the Lotus-eaters of Love Island. In this unique introduction, Womack leads his beloved lurcher Una (and us) on a fleet-footed odyssey through the classical world. You'll learn to tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus, your Polyxena from your Polydorus ... but the story of the hunting dogs that tore their own master apart may be best left for another day."--Publisher's description