Age of Augustus

Latin 313

Web Resources

Grand Camee de France, depicting in the upper register the deified Augustus with veiled head, crown, and scepter, in the middle register a barechested Tiberius seated next to his mother Livia, and in the lower register enemy prisoners

The Age of Augustus

Map of the Roman Empire in the time of Augustus

Map of Italy (IAM) (PDF)

Portrait and Background on Augustus, including extensive links (Riley Collection)

Images of Women in Augustus' family (Worlds of Roman Women)

Vergil's Aeneid

Introduction and Study Guide for Vergil's Aeneid, by Roger Dunkle

An outline of the Aeneid (Scaife)

Vergil's Aeneid Resource page (Reed College) includes FAQs, modern views, e-texts, study guides, brief bibliography

Aeneid Image Gallery (HistoryWiz)

Listen to a reading (in Latin) of the end of the Aeneid (12.926-52)

virgil.org, lots of great resources

Vergil's Home Page, including images and an on-line Latin text and English commentary

On-line text of Vergil's Aeneid (Perseus)

A Bibliographic Guide to Vergil's Aeneid

Vergil Read Aloud in Latin

Aeneid 1.1-11 via -- Read by Christopher Francese via "Latin Poetry Podcast" [RSS] [iTunes]

Vergil, Aeneid, Book 1, 1-49 Read in the restored pronunciation of classical Latin by Robert P. Sonkowsky, University of Minnesota.

Aeneid: Book 1 Intro, read by Wendell Clausen (Latin) and Kathleen Coleman (Dryden's translation)

Aeneid: Book 1 line 195 forward, read by Wendell Clausen (Latin) and Kathleen Coleman (Dryden's translation)

Virgil, Aeneid, 1.338-366 ( mp3 ), read by James McKeown

Aeneid: Book 1 line 586 forward, read by Wendell Clausen (Latin) and Kathleen Coleman (Dryden's translation)

Aeneid 3.575-587 -- Read by Christopher Francese via "Latin Poetry Podcast" [RSS]

Vergil, Aeneid, Book 4, 296-396 Read in the restored pronunciation of classical Latin by Stephen G. Daitz, City University of New York.

Aeneid: Book 4 line 331 forward, read by Wendell Clausen (Latin) and Kathleen Coleman (Dryden's translation)

Wilifried Stroh reads Virgil's Aeneid Book IV

Aeneid: Book 6 line 124 forward, read by Wendell Clausen (Latin) and Kathleen Coleman (Dryden's translation)

Aeneid: Book 6 line 185 forward, read by Wendell Clausen (Latin) and Kathleen Coleman (Dryden's translation)

Aeneid: Book 6 line 450 forward, read by Wendell Clausen (Latin) and Kathleen Coleman (Dryden's translation)

Vergil Re-Composed

Libretto of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

Video of Dido's lament, from Henry Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas