by Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Yeats's bleak prophecy after the First World War
All Poems
Aeneid Book 8, lines 678 - 684 and 714 - 731
The shield of Aeneas
by Virgil
hinc Augustus agens Italos in proelia Caesar
The decoration on Aeneas's new shield shows the future history of Rome, culminating in the triumphs of the Emperor Augustus
Aeneid Book 6, lines 77 - 101
The Sibyl’s Prophecy
Appendix Vergiliana, "Copa Syrisca"
The Syrian hostess
Aeneid Book 2, lines 234 - 245
The Trojan Horse enters the city
Aeneid Book 2, lines 250-267
The Trojan horse opens
Aeneid Book 4, lines 393 - 411
The Trojans prepare to set sail from Carthage
Aeneid Book 1, lines 441-65
The Trojans reach Carthage
Catullus 6