On Troy’s last night, Hector appears to Aeneas in a dream. He tells Aeneas that the city is falling: he must escape and preserve the heritage of Troy by founding a great citadel for the City’s Gods across the seas. Hear the poem in Latin and follow it in English here.
Unknowingly but unwisely, Aeneas’s son Ascanius has shot a tame stag belonging to King Latinus’s steward and his daughter. This is the Fury Allecto’s chance to unleash bloodshed between the Latins and the Trojans. She herself blows a superhumanly powerful alarm on the Latins’ horn.
The illustration is from a manuscript of the 400s CE.
Hear the extract in Latin and follow in English here.
Pantheon Poets’ selection of extracts from the Georgics, Virgil’s epic poem about farming and the countryside. Click on the title of each extract to hear it in Virgil’s original Latin Continue Reading
Virgil sets the scene for his great poem on agriculture and the countryside. Hear the Latin and follow in English here.