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.