Pantheon Poets has posted the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas in extracts from all twelve books of Virgil’s mighty epic for you to hear in Latin and follow in English. Binge, browse and link to the illustrated blog post on each extract. Use this link to access the selection, and see the illustrated blog post here.
On a pyre she has built to burn all that Aeneas has left her, Dido dies by her own hand on his sword. It is one of the great moments of the Aeneid, and augurs enmity and war for the future between Dido’s and Aeneas’s descendants. Hear the climax of the story here.
The Etruscan Lausus has died at Aeneas’s hands rescuing his wounded father, Mezentius, who rides back into the fray on his horse, Rhaebus, to join his son in death.
Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.
In the latest extract from Virgil’s Aeneid, Aeneas recalls the fate of Troy’s King, Priam, as he continues to tell the story of the fall of Troy to Queen Dido of Carthage. The painting is by Jean Baptiste Regnault.
Coming to the end of his underworld journey, Aeneas exits through the gates of sleep and brings Book 6 of the Aeneid to a close. Hear the Latin and follow in English here.
Aeneas’s men Euryalus and Nisus meet their end but take many foes with them. Hear the Latin and follow in English here and see the illustrated blog post https://www.pantheonpoets.com/?p=3558&preview=true.