Friedrich von Schiller
1759 - 1805
Friedrich von Schiller, 1759 – 1805, was the great contemporary and occasional collaborator of Goethe. He wrote a first-rate free translation of Books 2 and 4 of Virgil’s Aeneid, covering Aeneas’s account to Dido of the fall of Troy, and their subsequent, doomed love-affair. You can see and hear his version of the death of Laocoon from Book 2 and Dido’s reproaches to Aeneas and ultimate death from Boook 4 by following the links at the bottom of the page.
Poetry by Schiller
- Laocoon’s warning
- Friedrich Schiller recounts the death of Laocoon
- Aeneas is visited by Hector’s ghost
- Schiller’s death of Priam
- A royal affair begins
- Schiller tells of Dido’s anguish
- Aeneas prepares to leave Carthage
- Schiller describes the last of Dido
- Mourning and hope