A swan takes wing

Anticipating literary immortality, Horace imagines himself as a swan whose song will be heard all over the known world. Hear his Latin and follow in English here as he concludes his second book of Odes.

This Roman fresco of Leda and the swan was found in Pompeii in 2018.

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