In our latest post, Ovid describes the mysterious palace of Rumour, where everything that happens in the world is seen, heard and passed on. Hear his Latin and follow in English here.
Today we publish a selection of extracts from Friedrich von Schiller’s free version of Book 2 of Virgil’s Aeneid, in which Aeneas tells the story of the fall of Troy, and Book 4, in which Aeneas’s ill-fated affair with Queen Dido of Carthage ends in tragedy. See the selection here, hear Schiller’s German read by Tatjana Pisarski, and use the links to compare his version with Virgil’s original.
We have revised our translation of perhaps Catullus’s most famous poem, “Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus” – Lesbia, let’s live and love. Hear it in the original Latin and follow in English by following the link to the poem page here.
In a conversation which could come from any time or culture – give or take an unsettlingly blasé reference to slavery – Catullus is caught out embroidering the truth. Hear Catullus 10 in Latin and follow in English here.
We announce the completion of the Pantheon Poets Aeneid – 61 extracts read in Latin with English translation, telling the story of Aeneas from the fall of Troy to the establishment in Italy of a new settlement which will one day become Rome and a dynasty which will culminate in the Caesars and the Emperor Augustus. See it here.
A mighty epic ends as Aeneas plunges his sword into the wounded Turnus’s heart. Hear the final extract from the poem in Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.
In a moment of the highest importance for the future of Rome, and the plot of the Aeneid, Juno finally relinquishes her enmity towards the Trojans which has seen the city fall and Aeneas harried over land and sea. Her consent is made easier by Jupiter’s agreement that the identity of the people who will become the Romans will remain Italian, and not be subsumed into the speech and customs of the Trojans.
Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.
The plan for a duel between Aeneas and Turnus has been foiled yet again – worse, Aeneas has been wounded by a stray arrow, and, as he leaves the field, Turnus goes on yet another rampage, breaking the oaths that King Latinus has sworn. Hear Virgil’s vivid Latin and follow in English here.
As the long-delayed duel between Aeneas and Turnus seems to be about to take place, Aeneas swears to comply with the result if he loses and to behave generously and justly if he wins. Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.