See the new Latin poetry selection here, with pieces from Boethius, Horace and Virgil.
The statesman and scholar Boethius, writing in prison before his execution, reminds us that some things in the Universe remain forever true and do not change. Hear the poem here.
This is a landscape selection from the Latin poets (see the selections index here). The ancients would have assumed that the world was boundless and nature was inexhaustible, in contrast Continue Reading
Boethius’s fifth-century version of the Orpheus and Eurydice legend is more than just a literary exercise: it is a meditation on light, darkness, life and death written in prison by a man who knew that a grim death awaited him soon.
Hear Boethius’s Latin and follow in English here.