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 and follow in English translation.
Virgil begins the Georgics (Georgics Book 1, lines 1 – 42)
The farmer’s starry calendar (Georgics Book 1, lines 204 – 230)
Signs of bad weather (Georgics Book 1, lines 351 – 392)
Catastrophe for Rome? (Georgics Book 1, lines 461 – 514)
The farmer’s happy lot (Georgics, Book 2, lines 458 – 474)
More from Virgil’s farming Utopia (Georgics Book 2, lines 490 – 502 and 513 – 532)
Virgil’s poetic temple to Caesar (Georgics Book 3, lines 6 – 22 and 40 – 48)
Love is the same for all (Georgics Book 4, lines 243 – 279)
The natural history of bees (Georgics Book 4, lines 149 – 190)
Aristaeus’s bees (Georgics Book 4, lines 531 – 558)
