As Troy falls about her, and in fear for her life from both Greeks and Trojans, Helen takes refuge at the altars, where she is seen by Aeneas, newly come from the lost battle for King Priam’s palace.
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As the body of Prince Pallas is returned to his father, Aeneas performs the due rites for his soldiers who have fallen in the battle against Turnus and the Latins. Hear the story in Virgil’s original Latin and follow in John Dryden’s classic English translation here.
Virgil is bound for Athens. His friend, Horace, wishes him a voyage watched over by the Gods, and a safe return. In a bravura performance on a conventional theme, he goes on to marvel at the presumption of those who step over the divinely-ordained boundaries of the natural world by hazarding an ocean voyage.
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At fifty or so, Horace says he is free from love – but in his dreams, he still pursues the elusive Ligurinus.
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