ch. 1. Chapman's Renaissance Homer -- ch. 2. Pretexts and subtexts in Milton's Renaissance Homer -- ch. 3. Milton's translation of epic conventions -- ch. 4. Andrew Marvell and the Virgilian triad -- ch. 5. Satire and sedition -- ch. 6. Dryden, the new Virgil -- ch. 7. Homeric mockery in Milton and Pope -- ch. 8. The erosion of the tradition