Aeneas prepares to set out on his momentous visit to Hades and to his father in the Elysian fields. Read the illustrated blog post about this central section of the Aeneid here and follow the beginning of this phase of the epic journey here.
Schiller describes Dido’s last breath in today’s post. Hear the German with an English translation here and see the blog post with an illustration by Rembrandt here.
Horace puts his safe survival of an encounter with a wolf down to the purity of his love for Lalage. Hear the poem here and see the blog post with a wonderful wolf photographed by Gary Kramer here.
The spirit of Aeneas’s father brings him news of the favour of the Gods and an invitation to visit him in the Elysian Fields. Hear the extract here and see the illustrated blog post here.
In today’s extract, the Trojan women set fire to Aeneas’s ships in the hope that he will travel no further, but Aeneas receives help from friends in high places. Hear the extract in Latin and follow in English here, and see the illustrated blog post here.
Today’s new poem is Ovid’s account of King Midas of Lydia, who was give the power to turn anything he touched to gold, and wished he hadn’t been. Hear the poem here and see the illustrated blog post here.