Today’s new poem is Ovid’s account of the fall of Icarus. See the sumptuous illustration from the Louvre in the blog post and hear the poem in Latin and follow in English here.
Erysichthon, the blasphemer, begins Ovid’s horror-story about crime and punishment in his metamorphoses. The oak-tree in the picture, the Fredville Oak, has a roughly similar circumference to Ceres’s sacred tree, which Erysichthon is about to profane.
Hear Ovid’s Latin and follow in English here.
Erysichthon’s terrible hunger, the punishment inflicted on him by the Goddess Ceres, drives him to sell his own daughter: she finds a way to escape her new master, but there is no way for Erysichthon to escape a terrible death.
Hear Ovid’s Latin and follow in English translation here.
Hear Ovid’s version of the abduction of the beautiful Europa by Jupiter disguised as a bull here.
Here is a selection of poetry about the Gods – in a variety of moods. First, Jupiter, King of the Gods, in the mood for love as Europa’s bull. After Continue Reading