王磊主编的《新编希腊罗马神话欣赏》的目标读者仍为英语专业学生以及英语达到中级水平且对希腊罗马神话有浓厚兴趣的所有人。教材以精选并按一定体系编排的神话故事为主，同时兼顾其对西方艺术、文学的影响以及使用者语言学习的需要。教材正文共分三部分：The Olympian Gods and Other Deities(奥林普斯山众神及其他神祗)、Stories of Love and Adventure(爱情及历险故事)、TheTrojan War and Thereafter(特洛伊战争及其后事)，基本涵盖了希腊罗马神话中*为*名的故事和神、神人以及英雄三个时代。

Part One The Olympian Gods and Other Deities
Introduction to Part One: The Olympian Gods and Other Deities
  1. The Olympian Gods
    Cultural Connections: Pantheon
  2. The Nature of Zeus
    Cultural Connections: Astral Mythology
  3. Artemis and Actaeon
    Cultural Connections: The Sleep of Endymion
  4. The Creation and Recreation of Man
    Cultural Connections: The Hellenistic Civilization
  5. Athena
    Cultural Connections: Parthenon
  6. Dionysus
    Cultural Connections: Dionysus in Art
  7. Midas
    Cultural Connections: Poussin's Midas and Bacchus
  8. Persephone
    Cultural Connections: The Eleusinian Mysteries
  9. Hades and the Underworld
    Cultural Connections: Katabasis (Descent into the Underworld)
  10. Other Deities
    Cultural Connections: The Best-known Picture in America
Part Two Stories of Love and Adventure
Introduction to Part Two: Stories of Love
  11. Atalanta
    Cultural Connections: Atalanta and Hippomenes
  12. Apollo and Daphne
    Cultural Connections: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne
  13. Cupid and Psyche
    Cultural Connections: Psyche and Butterfly
  14. Venus and Adonis
    Cultural Connections: Adonis Belt (Complex, Index, etc.)
  15. Pyramus and Thisbe
    Cultural Connections: The Pyramus and Thisbe Club
  16. Echo and Narcissus
    Cultural Connections: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
  17. Pygmalion
    Cultural Connections: The Pygmalion and the Galatea Effect
Introduction to Part Two: Stories of Adventure
  18. Perseus and Medusa
    Cultural Connections: A Chimera in the Greeks' Brain
  19. Jason and the Golden Fleece
    Cultural Connections: The Medea Complex/Syndrome
  20. The Twelve Labors of Heracles
    Cultural Connections: Heracles in Action
  21. Cadmus
    Culfural Connections: Hubris and Nemesis
  22. Oedipus Rex
    Cultural Connections: Moreau's Oedipus and the Sphinx
  23. Theseus
    Cultural Connections: Ariadne's Thread and the Ship of Theseus
Part Three The Trojan War and Thereafter
Introduction to Part Three: The Trojan War and Thereafter
  24. The Trojan War
    Cultural Connections: Spin-offs of the Trojan War
  25. Agamemnon
    Cultural Connections: "I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon"
  26. The Story of Odysseus
    Cultural Connections: The Afterlife of Odysseus
  27. The Story of Aeneas (I)
    Cultural Connections: Literature as Propaganda
  28. The Story of Aeneas (II)
    Cultural Connections: "I found Rome a city of brick, but left it a city of marble"
Part Four Selected Readings in Mythological Classics
  Hesiod
    Theogony
  Ovid
    Metamorphoses
  Homer
    Iliad
    Odyssey
  Virgil
    Aeneid
  Aeschylus
    Agamemnon
  Sophocles
    Oedipus the King
  Euripides
    Medea
    Trojan Women
Appendix
  A Pronouncing Glossary of Mythological Names and Allusions
Bibliography