Cruel King Mezentius follows his son to his death at the hands of Aeneas.
Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.
See the illustrated blog post 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.
Unknowingly but unwisely, Aeneas’s son Ascanius has shot a tame stag belonging to King Latinus’s steward and his daughter. This is the Fury Allecto’s chance to unleash bloodshed between the Latins and the Trojans. She herself blows a superhumanly powerful alarm on the Latins’ horn.
The illustration is from a manuscript of the 400s CE.
Hear the extract in Latin and follow in English here.
Aeneas is told by the Cumaean Sybil that the way to the underworld can be opened to him only if he finds a golden bough, sacred to Proserpina, Queen of the underworld, and takes it with him as an offering. The illustration shows the golden bough as imagined by JMW Turner. Hear the Latin and follow the English translation here.
In a tremendous tour-de-force, Virgil describes an incredibly powerful storm at sea as Aeneas and his men fight for survival.
Hear Virgil’s powerful Latin recited and follow in a new English translation here.
Photograph of Roman Mosaic in the Musée de Sousse by Habib M’Henni.