Today’s new poem is an encounter between Aeneas and the Harpies, half-women, half savage birds. Things do not go well, and the Harpies give Aeneas an unwelcome prophecy.
Horace wrote today’s new poem as his sign-off from the Odes and his claim to lyric fame. Hear and follow it here.
Aeneas succeeds in rescuing his son and father, but cannot save his wife, Creusa. Hear the story in Latin and follow in English here.
Hear Catullus’s tender poem in Latin and follow it in English here.
Today’s new poem is the story as told by Ovid in the Metamorphoses of Daedalus the legendary craftsman and his son Icarus, who flew too close to the Sun
Cynthia wakes as Propertius returns from his night out – what reception will he get? Hear the poem in Latin and follow in English here as crockery is about to fly.
At first Aeneas’s Father Anchises didn’t want to go, but now his son carries him to safety through the flames as Troy falls. Hear Virgil’s poetry in Latin and follow in English here.The painting is by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld.
In the latest extract from Virgil’s Aeneid, Aeneas recalls the fate of Troy’s King, Priam, as he continues to tell the story of the fall of Troy to Queen Dido of Carthage. The painting is by Jean Baptiste Regnault.