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Archilochus on mourning

Posted on May 1, 2021February 21, 2024

In the seventh century BCE, the Greek warrior-poet Archilochus addresses a mourning friend.

Hear the Greek and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Posted in NewsTagged Archilochus, Greek poetry recited, Greek poetry translated

Saint-Loup of the Brazen Helm

Posted on April 25, 2021February 21, 2024

Today’s extract from Proust shows how much rarer knowledge of the classics has become since the 1890s. Pantheon Poets can help!

See the illustrated blog post here.

Hear the French and follow in English here.

Posted in NewsTagged Proust, Saint Loup

Horace and the shortness of human life

Posted on April 21, 2021February 21, 2024

Today’s new post is one of Horace’s most famous Odes on the theme of “carpe diem”. Hear the Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Posted in NewsTagged Carpe diem, Eheu fugaces, horace

Horace’s prayer to the powers of wine

Posted on April 12, 2021February 21, 2024

Today’s post is Horace’s gentle tribute to the good things of life in general, and wine in particular. See the illustrated blog post here.

Listen to the Latin and follow in English here.

Posted in NewsTagged horace, Odes

Dante and Virgil

Posted on April 9, 2021February 21, 2024

In Dante’s Divina Commedia, he meets his great predecessor, Virgil. Hear the Italian and follow in English here.

See the blog post with an illustration by William Blake here.

There is a portrait of Dante by Botticelli on his poet page here.

Posted in NewsTagged Aeneid, Dante, Virgil

The gates of sleep

Posted on April 5, 2021February 21, 2024

Today’s post is the close of Book 6 of the Aeneid: Aeneas ends his underworld journey, returning to the upper Earth through the gates of sleep.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Hear the Latin and follow in English here.

Posted in NewsTagged Aeneas, Aeneid, Latinpoetryrecited, Virgil

Marcellus, Augustus’s tragic heir

Posted on April 2, 2021February 21, 2024

In today’s post, Aeneas’s Father, Anchises, explains a future tragedy as the talk in the Elysian Fields. See the illustrated blog post here; hear the extract in Latin and follow in English here.

Posted in NewsTagged Aeneas, Aeneid, Latinpoetryrecited, Marcellus, Virgil

Aeneas sees the future Emperor Augustus

Posted on March 31, 2021February 21, 2024

On his underworld journey, Aeneas encounters a great prodigy – the glorious future Emperor, Augustus. See the illustrated blog post here; hear the Latin and follow in English here.

Posted in NewsTagged Aeneas, Aeneid, Virgil

Aeneas in the Elysian Fields

Posted on March 29, 2021February 21, 2024

In today’s poem, Aeneas comes to the home of the blessed in his underworld journey. See the illustrated blog post here; hear the Latin and follow in English here.

Posted in NewsTagged Aeneas, Aeneid, Elysian Fields, Latinpoetryrecited, Virgil
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