‘A Dirge’ by Christina Rossetti (book epigraph)

‘Telephus’ by Lucius Accius (Prologue)

‘De Consolatione Philosophiae’ by Boethius (Part 1)

‘The Aeneid’, Book 1, by Virgil (Part 2)

‘The Aeneid’, Book 1, by Virgil (Part 3)

‘Historia Naturalis’ by Pliny the Elder (Part 4)

‘Georgics’, Book 2, by Virgil (Part 5)

‘Odes’, Book 2, by Horace (Epilogue)