Aeneas meets the Harpies and receives an unwelcome prophecy. Hear and read the poem in Latin and English and see the blog with a picture.
Today’s new poem is an encounter between Aeneas and the Harpies, half-women, half savage birds. Things do not go well, and the Harpies give Aeneas an unwelcome prophecy.
This selection introduces us to beasts and monsters, starting gently with the wolf that Horace met one day. He was clearly frightened, but with the benefit of nature documentaries we Continue Reading
Today’s selection from the poetry of Horace and Virgil introduces us to beasts and monsters. Hear the Latin and follow the English here.
Omens and prophecy are everywhere in classical literature, as this selection from the work of Virgil shows. In Book 2 of the Aeneid, the priest, Laocoon, foretells here all too Continue Reading