Should a prologue go before or after the list of chapters in a book?

I cant find a novel here that has both..

Its an introduction/preface, it always comes before.

Not convinced.

Its an introduction to the book, not to the contents page...

Ah, lotr has it afterwards

cheers

Had a flick through my books, cant find a novel as such, but A breif history of time has contents first, then prologue/abstract/introduction to the book/credits type stuff.

Prologue is to epilogue as Donna is to Nancy in relation to me on a lucky night. :wub:

I think i misread, it would actually form an introductory chapter, so I believe you put it after the contents and reference it in the contents.

Ahh you have the answer already  :-)

Also, I have two epilogues - is there a correct term or is epi-epilogue the best I can do?

Call one the epilogue and one the afterword?

epilogue and afterword?