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Dido and Aeneas are lovers

Posted on October 7, 2020February 21, 2024

The news travels fast and the results will be bad. See and hear the poem here and the blog post with an illustration here.

Dido and Aeneas: the storm of passion

Posted on October 1, 2020February 21, 2024

Dido’s and Aeneas’s stormy passion can no longer be contained. Hear in Latin and follow in English here; see the blog post with an illustration here.

Dido falls in love

Posted on September 25, 2020February 21, 2024

Dido has fallen for Aeneas, to her ultimate cost. See and hear the poem or see the blog with an illustration.

Horace’s welcome to his army comrade

Posted on September 22, 2020February 21, 2024

Pompeius’s civic rights have been restored and Horace is celebrating with him. See the blog post with an ancient party scene here and hear the poem with a translation here.

How Aeneas will know where to build the City

Posted on September 19, 2020February 21, 2024

Aeneas receives another prophecy. Hear the poem with an English translation hereand see the blog post with a picture here.

Ovid in triumph

Posted on September 14, 2020February 21, 2024

Ovid has succeeded with his lady-love Corinna and is over the moon (and the top). Hear and follow the poem here and see the blog with an illustration of a triumph here.

Classic English translations of Homer

Posted on September 10, 2020February 21, 2024

New today – follow the links to classic English translations of the opening lines of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey by Alexander Pope and George Chapman.

Aeneas and the Harpies

Posted on September 8, 2020February 21, 2024

Aeneas meets the Harpies and receives an unwelcome prophecy. Hear and read the poem in Latin and English and see the blog with a picture.

Horace’s monument, more eternal than bronze

Posted on August 28, 2020February 21, 2024

Horace thinks, wrongly, that he has written his last Ode and lays his claim to posterity. Hear and follow the poem here and see the blog post with a lyre-player from Pompeii here.