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1Eclogues

By Virgil

This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely inspired not only by the Romans themselves, but by the Medieval Catholic church, The Eclogues is one of the most beloved collections of Latin short poetry. (Summary by Caeristhiona)<BR> The translator of this version is unknown. This recording is done in the form of a dramatic reading: in each eclogue, every character is read by a different Librivox volunteer.<BR><BR> Readers of the eclogues that were done by multiple readers:<BR><BR> <I>Eclogue 1</I><BR> Meliboeus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/26">Denny Sayers</a><br>Tityrus: <a href="http://kayray.org/">Kara Shallenberg</a><br> <I>Eclogue 3</I><BR> Menalcas: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2961">Leni Ribeiro</a><br>Damoetas: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/87">Rosalind Wills</a><br>Palaemon: <a href="http://kayray.org/">Kara Shallenberg</a><br> <I>Eclogue 5</I><BR> Menalcas: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2961">Leni Ribeiro</a><br>Mopsus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1724">Anna Simon</a><br> <I>Eclogue 7</I><BR> Meliboeus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/26">Denny Sayers</a><br> Corydon: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2961">Leni Ribeiro</a><br> Tityrus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1724">Anna Simon</a><br> <I>Eclogue 8</I><BR> Pollio: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1724">Anna Simon</a><br> Damon: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2607">Ruthie Golding</a><br> Alphesiboeus: <a href="http://frisco-squid.blogspot.com/">Squid Varilekova</a><br> <I>Eclogue 9</I><BR> Lycidas: <a href="www.gregelmensdorp.com">Greg Elmensdorp</a><br> Moeris: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2961">Leni Ribeiro</a><br><BR> Also available: <a href="http://librivox.org/eclogae-by-publius-vergilius-maro/">a Librivox recording of The Eclogues in their original Latin.</a>

2Eclogae (dramatic reading)

By Virgil

This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely inspired not only by the Romans themselves, but by the Medieval Catholic church, The Eclogues is one of the most beloved collections of Latin short poetry. (Summary by Caeristhiona)<br /><br />This recording is done in the original Latin, in the form of a dramatic reading: in each eclogue, every character is read by a different Librivox volunteer. Two eclogues are included twice - giving you a "Choice of Voice" !

3Aeneid

By Virgil

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Vergil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Cartheginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)

Eneas, príncipe de Dardania, huye de Troya tras haber sido quemada ésta por el ejército aqueo, llevándose a su padre Anquises y a su hijo Ascanio. En el camino, su mujer Creúsa se pierde definitivamente y su fantasma dice a Eneas que no vierta amargas lágrimas por ella, pues le estaba aparejado por el destino una esposa de sangre real. Juno, rencorosa con la estirpe troyana, trata de desviar por todos los medios a la flota de supervivientes de su destino inevitable, Italia. Las peregrinaciones de Eneas duran siete años, hasta que llegado el último es acogido en el reino emergente de Cartago, gobernado por Dido o Elisa de Tiro. Por un ardid de Venus y Cupido, Dido se enamora perdidamente de Eneas y tras la partida de éste por orden de Júpiter, se quita la vida, maldiciendo antes a toda la estirpe venidera de Eneas y clamando el surgimiento de un héroe vengador: de esta forma se crea el cuadro que justifica la eterna enemistad entre dos pueblos hermanos, el de Cartago y el de Roma, origen mítico de las guerras púnicas. En su camino hacia Italia se le aparece el alma de su padre Anquises que le pide que vaya a verlo al Averno. Eneas, acompañado de la Sibila de Cumas, recorre los reinos de Plutón y Anquises le muestra toda la gloria y pompa de su futura estirpe, los romanos. Llegados por fin los troyanos a Italia contactan con el rey Latino, quien los recibe pacíficamente, y recordando la antigua profecía de que su hija Lavinia se casaría con un extranjero, decide aliarse con Eneas y darle a Lavinia por esposa. Turno, rey de los rútulos, primo y pretendiente de Lavinia, trastornado por las Furias, declara la guerra a Eneas. Los dos ejércitos con sus aliados se enfrentan fieramente, ayudados los troyanos por Venus y los rútulos por Juno, sin que Júpiter intervenga. Se producen muertes en ambos bandos y finalmente... (Resumen adaptado de http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eneida).<br /><br /> La obra consta de casi diez mil hexámetros dactílicos, divididos en doce libros, que se pueden agrupar en dos partes; los seis primeros que narran los viajes de Eneas hasta llegar a Italia, al estilo de la Odisea, y los seis últimos que narran sus conquistas en Italia, al estilo de la Ilíada y del Ciclo troyano.<br /><br /> Publio Virgilio Marón (70 a. C. – 19 a. C.) es uno de los mayores poetas latinos. Eugenio de Ochoa y Montel (1815-1872), traductor de esta versión, fue escritor, crítico, bibliógrafo, editor y traductor español, perteneciente al Romanticismo. (Resumen de Wikipedia y Tux)

Aeneas flees the destruction of Troy, abandons Dido, queen of the Carthaginians, and wends his way to Latium in Italy, where slaying Turnus, leader of native resistance, he founds the future Rome. (Summary by Malone)

Vergil's <i>Georgica</i> is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC. His poem is a rich admixture of allusion to that tradition: didactic poem, eulogium of Augustus, the neoteric epyllion about Orpheus, Epicurean philosophy as presented by his predecessor and model, Lucretius. Thomas Jefferson imagined his gentleman farmer tilling his fields with a copy of the Georgics between the handles of the plowshare. (Summary by Malone)

7Aeneid, prose translation

By Virgil

The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow citizens to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, while the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ victorious war upon the Latins. This is the recording of J.W.MacKail's prose translation. (Summary by Leni)

8Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

By Virgil

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Virgil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Carthaginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)

Virgil's Georgics are the second of the three major poetic works ascribed to the poet. It was published probably around 29 BC and, as the name suggests, the subject of the poem is agriculture. Divided into four books, it is also the shortest of Virgil's main poetry, with only 2188 hexametric verses. The poem draws on a variety of prior sources and has influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present. - Summary by Leni

10Georgics: A Poem of the Land

By Virgil

A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such matters of labour Virgil dwells and celebrates. In a dramatic survey of practices including agriculture, viticulture, animal husbandry, and bee-keeping, as well as the themes and mythos of labour, pastoral life, the glory of Roman citizenship, and the chaos that disrupts the fruitfulness of our daily lives, Virgil weaves a lyrical tapestry of both Greek and Roman thread portraying the complex relationship between humanity and the divine. (Summary by George Emerson)