Author: Pantheon Poets

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It is three years now since Pantheon Poets was created to:

  • provide easy access to great Latin poets and poems, even for those with limited or no Latin themselves;
  • offer a reading of each poem in the original Latin to highlight how its rhythms and conventions work, and how much they differ from modern poetry;
  • show a new, specially-made English translation alongside each piece; and
  • highlight the influence that Latin poets have had on some English, French and German writers in the modern era.

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  • Do you come to Pantheon Poets for the readings, the translations or both?
  • How do you like them?
  • Is our home page (see it here) welcoming and attractive? Is it clear and easy to navigate?
  • Can you find the poems and poets you are looking for easily?
  • Have you browsed our Latin selections (of poems by a particular writer or on a particular theme)?
  • Is our introductory material on historical background, individual poets and individual poems helpful? Is the level of detail right?
  • Would you like to see more poems by a particular Latin poet? Are there new poets that you would like us to feature?
  • How well have we met our aims? Are there any other comments you would like to give us on PantheonPoets.com?

Go to www.pantheonpoets.com/feedback to give us your views.

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Guidance for Aeneas from his mother

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Aeneas has spotted Helen of Troy, whose elopement with Paris caused the war and the destruction of Troy, lying low in the burning ruins. He has an angry impulse to kill her, but now his divine mother, Venus, intervenes to tell him that the city has fallen by the will of the Gods and that he must go home and save his family.

Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.

Hector and Andromache

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In an encounter a quarter of the way through Homer’s Iliad, The Trojan hero Hector’s wife, Andromache, begs him to direct the Trojan defence from the wall, rather than return to the battle. But Hector’s duty as Troy’s defender and the warrior’s code will not allow him to do so, although he foresees his own death and the fall of the city as clearly as Andromache foresees that she will soon be a widow and her son an orphan. We learn, too, that Andromache’s life has already been ravaged by Achilles, Hector’s future killer.

Hear Homer’s Greek and follow in English here.

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