What were the strategic factors that allowed Rome to absorb repeated body blows and to endure an enemy army in its homeland for more than a decade without succumbing?
Made in France, probably in Rheims, about 820-840, this manuscript has a copy of a famous poem on the constellations and planets. The result of several layers of translation and being added to, the po...
Passage from Vergil's Aeneid (book 6, lines 836-853) in the restored classical pronunciation of Latin. This involves features such as phonemic vowel length distinctions, consistently hard C, semi-vocalic V, diphtongal AE, aspirated PH, and so on.
Gestures and facial expressions were an important aspect of speech delivery in the time of Cicero. Review Selection IV of the Pro Caelio on page 240 of your ...
LibriVox recording of Eclogae, by Publius Vergilius Maro (aka Virgil). Read in the original Latin. This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a...
LibriVox recording of Ovid's Heroides, read by Librivox Volunteers, proofed and coordinated by Leni, and produced by Karen Merline. The Heroides, also known...
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Roman marble relief, c. AD 140-150. Aeneas and his son Ascanius finding the white sow with thirty piglets, the omen which marks the location of the future Alba Longa, founded by Ascanius after thirty years. British Museum, London. Ecce autem subitum atque oculis mirabile monstrum; candida per silvam cum fetu concolor albo procubuit viridique in litore conspicitur sus. Quam pius Aeneas tibi enim, tibi, maxuma Iuno, mactat sacra ferens et cum grege sistit ad aram. Vergil, Aeneid, VIII, 81-85.
V. Vratović. Povijest svjetske književnosti : u osam knjiga. Knj. 2, Grčka (antička), rimska, bizantska, srednjovjekovna latinska, novovjekovna latinska, novogrčka i albanska književnost, Mladost, Zagreb, (1977)