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Latin selections

Selections of works by different Latin poets on a common theme. Here is an index: pick a subject, click on it and then follow the links from the page to the poems.

The Aeneid – a large selection of extracts providing, with their associated blog posts, an illustrated outline of Virgil’s great Roman epic.

Beasts and monsters, from Virgil and Horace.

Carpe diem – encouragement, mainly from Horace, to enjoy life while we can.

The Georgics – ten extracts from Virgil’s epic account of farming, the countryside, the stars and the weather.

Gods and demons, from Horace, Ovid and Virgil.

Horace’s odes: all of the Odes featured on Pantheon Poets, presented as a single selection in reference order.

Landscape, described by Boethius, Catullus, Horace and Virgil.

Love going well, by Catullus, Ovid, Propertius, Horace and Virgil

Love going badly, by the same authors.

The poet Lucan and his epic poem on Caesar’s civil war.

Mourning – poems by Catullus, Archilochus, Virgil and Callimachus.

Prophecies and omens, from Virgil.

Travel, by Catullus, Homer, Ovid and Virgil.

“Carpe Diem:”

Posted on November 16, 2021May 7, 2026

This selection is on the theme of Carpe diem – these days usually translated as “seize the day”, but you could equally well translate it as “pluck” the day – Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged Carpe diem, Copa syrisca, horace

Beasts and monsters

Posted on May 10, 2021February 21, 2024

This selection introduces us to beasts and monsters, starting gently with the wolf that Horace met one day. He was clearly frightened, but with the benefit of nature documentaries we Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged Aeneas, Cerberus, Harpies, horace, Laocoon, Latin poetry recited, Tisiphone, Trojan Horse, Virgil

Gods and demons

Posted on May 25, 2021February 21, 2024

Here is a selection of poetry about the Gods – in a variety of moods. First, Jupiter, King of the Gods, in the mood for love as Europa’s bull. After Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged Aeneas, Aeneid, Arachne, Bacchus, Charon, Cyclopes, Dido, Europa, horace, Iris, Mercury, Minerva, ovid, Rumour, Virgil, Vulcan

Horace’s Odes

Posted on May 30, 2022March 25, 2024
Horace

This is Pantheon Poets’s selection of twenty-eight of Horace’s poems in the order in which they appear in his four Books of the Odes. Click on the description of each Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged horace

Landscape

Posted on July 30, 2021February 21, 2024

This is a landscape selection from the Latin poets (see the selections index here). The ancients would have assumed that the world was boundless and nature was inexhaustible, in contrast Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged Boethius, Catullus, horace, Virgil

Love going badly

Posted on May 3, 2021February 21, 2024

In this second selection of poems on a theme, love is not going so smoothly. Dido is being consumed by a passion for Aeneas which as yet is unrequited: Dido Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged Catullus, horace, Latin poetry selections, Propertius, Virgil

Love going well

Posted on April 23, 2021February 21, 2024

This is the first of a new series of Pantheon Poets Latin medleys – a selection of Latin poems which share a common theme. The first is love, and specifically Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged Catullus, horace, Latin poems recited, Latin poems translated, ovid, Propertius

Lucan and the civil war

Posted on August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

This is a short selection about the poet Lucan, destined to die young by Nero’s orders, and his epic poem about the civil war, “De Bello Civile”. You can read Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged Caesar, De Bello Civilee, Lucan, Pompey

Mourning

Posted on May 15, 2021February 21, 2024

The loss of a loved one is hard, but it has inspired some very beautiful poetry. This selection begins with Catullus’s farewell to a beloved brother. In this poem, the Continue Reading

Posted in Latin selectionsTagged Aeneas, Archilochus, Callimachus, Catullus, Heraclitus, Virgil
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