Aeneas’s bitter enemy, Juno, has bribed Aeolus, the master of the winds, to unleash them on his fleet. Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.
See the illustrated blog post 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.
Pantheon Poets’ selection of extracts from the Georgics, Virgil’s epic poem about farming and the countryside. Click on the title of each extract to hear it in Virgil’s original Latin Continue Reading
Virgil sets the scene for his great poem on agriculture and the countryside. Hear the Latin and follow in English here.
Aeneas is told by the Cumaean Sybil that the way to the underworld can be opened to him only if he finds a golden bough, sacred to Proserpina, Queen of the underworld, and takes it with him as an offering. The illustration shows the golden bough as imagined by JMW Turner. Hear the Latin and follow the English translation here.
Farmers have an easy life, according to Virgil in his Georgics. But would they agree? Hear Virgil’s rose-coloured poem in Latin and follow in English here.