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Enter the wooden horse

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In Queen Dido’s banqueting hall, Aeneas is telling how Sinon, a spy left behind by the Greeks to trick the Trojans into taking a huge wooden horse into the city, set about his task.

Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Dido and Cupid

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In a banqueting hall on Carthage, Cupid has been sent by his mother Venus to make Queen Dido fall in love with Aeneas, the heroic Trojan prince whose descendants will found Rome.

Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Horace takes a break and a drink

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Signing off having completed his first book of Odes, Horace enjoys a well-earned drink and celebrates the superiority of such simple Roman pleasures over luxurious Eastern fashions.

Hear Horace’s poem in his original Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

A fading beauty

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Horace reflects on the predicament of a beautiful courtesan who is becoming an object of indifference, or even scorn, as she ages and loses her looks. How far he sympathises, and how far he is pleased at the change, is hard to say.

Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.