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The Rubicon

Posted on July 29, 2022

Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon!

Hear Lucan’s Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Pompey and Caesar

Posted on July 25, 2022

As civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great threatens, the poet Lucan sums up the two protagonists.

See and hear the Latin and follow in Engish here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Lucan

Posted on July 23, 2022

Who was Lucan? In preparation for a short series of extracts from his poem on the civil war that followed Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, read about him in his poet page here.

Today we publish all 20 of the Horace Odes so far on Pantheon Poets as a single selection in reference order. Access it here to hear the poetry in the original Latin and follow in English translation.

A selection from the Georgics

Posted on May 28, 2022

Today’s post completes Pantheon Poets’ set of extracts from Virgil’s Georgics. See and hear Virgil’s story of Aristaeus and his bees here, and access the full set of Georgics extracts here.

The madness of war

Posted on May 22, 2022

Today’s poem – topically given events in Europe in 2022 – is Thomas Hardy on the madness of war. See and hear it here, and see the illustrated blog post here.

World Bee Day

Posted on May 20, 2022

On World Bee Day, we present Virgil’s description of the life of the hive. Hear his Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.

The power of love

Posted on May 16, 2022

In today’s post from his Georgics, Virgil explores the sexual instinct, common to men and animals. Hear the Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post with a horse painted by George Stubbs here.

Loving the country life

Posted on May 10, 2022

Today’s post from Virgil’s Georgics continues his idealised love-song to the farming life. Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in John Dryden’s 17th-century English translation here; see the blog post with some happy pigs here.