by Virgil
nunc age, naturas apibus quas Iuppiter ipse
Bees and their city state
Latin poems to know and love.
Georgics Book 4, lines 149 - 190
Odes 1.6
Metamorphoses Book 6, lines 382 - 400
Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
by Virgil
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 178 - 216
by Ovid
Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras
Phaethon's disastrous ride in the chariot of the Sun continues
Odes 1.23
Odes 1.34
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391