The efforts of Juno, queen of the Gods, to sow dissension between Aeneas and his Italian hosts are in full swing, with the help of the Fury, Allecto. Disguised at first as an old woman, Allecto now reveals herself to Turnus in her full and terrifying reality.
Hear the Latin and follow in English here.
Juno’s efforts to sow discord between Aeneas and the Italians are now in full swing, with the able help of the terrifying Fury, Allecto. Visiting King Turnus in disguise, she reveals her true self and sends him wild with anger.
Hear the Latin and follow in English here.
See the illustrated blog post here.
With the help of the Fury Allecto, Juno, Aeneas’s enemy, has sabotaged King Latinus’s wish to welcome him and create an alliance by marriage to his daughter. Overcome, the old man withdraws from the fray and Juno herself intervenes to open the gates of war.
Hear the Latin and follow in English here.
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.
