Hiding in the Cyclops’s cave, Odysseus and his men wait for him to come home and are not disappointed. Hear Homer’s Greek and follow in Samuel Butler’s English translation here.
Catullus is taking a prurient interest in a friend’s latest bedmate. Hear his Latin and follow in English here, and see the illustrated blog post here.
At the beginning of his third book of Odes, Horace derides the presumptions of wealth and power and counsels a simpler life. Hear his poem in Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.
Hear a sample of the poetry of Archilochus, the earliest Greek lyric poet in the original Greek and follow in English translation here. See the illustrated blog post with a black-figure Greek warrior here.