In Book 9 of Virgil’s Aeneid, Turnus, Aeneas’s enemy and the leader of the Rutuli, is shut inside his enemy’s camp. At first, the battle goes his way – but then the Trojan leaders begin to rally their forces. Hear Virgil’s original Latin and follow in English here.
Aeneas’s enemy and rival, King Turnus, rages like a desperate wolf as he looks for a way into the Trojans’ camp. Hear Virgil’s story in Latin and follow in English here.
In North Africa, fearing that fourteen of his ships may be lost, Aeneas is exploring the country. His mother Venus, disguised as a Phoenician girl, has told him the story of Queen Dido and now delivers good news about his missing ships and men by interpreting a sighting of swans as an oracle.
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Pausing in his countryside poem, the Georgics, Virgil looks ahead to the composition of a poem on a loftier theme – the glorification of the Emperor Augustus through the Aeneid. Hear the Latin and follow in English here.
In Vulcan the fire-God’s forge, his workmen, the Cyclopes, are called on to stop work on Jupiter’s thunderbolts and make new armour for Aeneas. Hear the Latin and follow in English here.