Virgil / Aeniad Virgil / Aeniad CD

Virgil's Aeneid, one of the greatest Classical poems, tells the story of Aeneas, son of Priam, after the fall of Troy. His quest is to find the site ‘in the west where he will find a new town prophesied to be the seat of a world empire—Rome. This great poem, in a modern translation by Cecil Day Lewis, is superbly read by the great classical actor Paul Scofield, with Jill Balcon.

1. Book I: I Tell About War and the Hero 2. Book I: Juno: Shall I Give Up? Own Myself Beaten? 3. Book I: Aeolus: O Queen, It Is for You to Be Fully Aware What You Ask 4. Book I: Aeneas: Oh, Thrice and Four Times Blessed 5. Book I: Neptune: Does Family Pride Tempt You to Such Impertinence? 6. Book I: Jupiter from High Heaven Looked Down 7. Book I: Narrator: As They Walked Through the Woods 8. Book I: Meanwhile the Two Pressed on Apace, Where the Track Pointed 9. Book I: There Was a Grove, Most Genial in It's Shade 10. Book I: Illioneus: O Queen, Who Under God, Have Founded a City 11. Book I: Dido: Trojans, Put Fear Away from Your Hearts, and Forget Your Troubles! 12. Book I: Aeneas: I Am Here, Before You, the One You Look for 13. Book I: But Venus Was Meditating a New and Artful Scheme 14. Book II: All Fell Silent Now, and Their Faces Were All Attention 15. Book II: Aeneas: We Were Tricked By Cunning and Crocodile Tears 16. Book II: So Now the Sky Rolled Round, and Night Raced Up from the Ocean 17. Book II: Meantime, Troy Was Shaken Through and Through By Her Last Pangs 18. Book II: Aeneas: Not the Trojans Alone Paid Their Account in Blood 19. Book II: Aeneas: Inside the Palace, All Was Confusion, Groans, Agony 20. Book II: Venus: My Son, What Anguish Suprs You to This Ungoverned Rage? 21. Book II: Anchises: O God Omnipotent, If Any Prayers Can Sway You 22. Book II: Aeneas: Let Little Ascanius Walk Beside Me 23. Book II: Aeneas: For a Start, I Returned to the Shadowed Gate in the City Wall 24. Book III: Aeneas: After the Gods Had Seen Fit to Destroy Our Asian Empire 25. Book IV: But Now for Some While the Queen Had Been Growing More Grieviously Love-Sick 26. Book IV: These Words Blew to a Blaze the Spark of Love in the Queens Heart 27. Book IV: So Now, As Aurora Was Rising Out of Her Ocean Bed 28. Book IV: Jove Omnipotent Bent Down His Gaze Upon Didos City 29. Book IV: Dido: Unfaithful Man, Did You Think You Could Do Such a Dreadful Thing? 30. Book IV: With These Words, Dido Suddenly Ended, and Sick at Heart 31. Book IV: But Hapless Dido, Frightened Out of Her Wits By Her Destiny 32. Book IV: Aenas: Jump to It Men! to Your Watch! Get to the Rowing Benches! 33. Book IV: Trembling, Distraught By the Terrible Thing She Was Doing 34. Book V: Meanwhile, Aeneas Held His Fleet on It's Course Through the Deep Sea 35. Book VI: At Long Last They Slid to the Shores of Euboean Cumae 36. Book VI: But the Sibyl, Not Yet Submissive to Pheobus, There in Her Cavern 37. Book VI: Now the Doves, As They Fed, Flitted on from Spot to Spot 38. Book VI: A Dreadful Ferryman Looks After the Crossing 39. Book VI: Huge Cerberus, Monstrously Couched in a Cave Confronting Them 40. Book VI: Aeneas: Poor Unhappy Dido, So the Message Was True That Came to Me 41. Book VI: Side By Side They Went the Twilight Way 42. Book VI: Deep in a Green Valley Stood Father Anchises 43. Book VI: When Anchises Had Finished He Drew His Son and the Sibyl 44. Book VI: Anchises: But Romans, Never Forget That Government Is Your Medium! 45. Book VII: Caeta Too, Who Was Nurse to Aeneas 46. Book VII: Aeneas, His Lieutenants and Fair Ascanius 47. Book VII: Latinus: Trojans - Oh Yes, Your City and Line Are Not Unknown to Us 48. Book VII: Latinus Received This Speech of Illioneus with a Gaze 49. Book VII: But Look! from Argos, City of Inachus, Now Returning 50. Book VII: Queen of Latinus: Husband, Must Our Lavinia Be Wed to a Trojan, An Outcast? 51. Book VII: Turnus: I Am Not, As You Seem to Think, Unaware 52. Book VII: While They Fought Over the Plain There, with Neither Side Prevailing 53. Book VII: Latinus Said No More 54. Book VII: Five Great Towns Establish Workshops for the Production of Armaments 55. Book VII: Narrator: Thus the Seeds of War Were Sown 56. Book XII: When Turnus Saw That the Latins Were Crushed By Defeat 57. Book XII: The Morrows Dawn Was Just Beginning to Shower It's Light 58. Book XII: Aeneas: Let the Sun Witness My Invocation Now 59. Book XII: So Saying, He Ran Forward and Launched a Weapon Right at the Foe 60. Book XII: Now While the Victorious Turnus Littered the Battlefield with Dead 61. Book XII: When He Had Spoken, Aeneas Sallied Forth in His Might 62. Book XII: Aeneas and Turnus Tore Through the Battle 63. Book XII: A Further Calamity Now Befell the War-Weary Latins 64. Book XII: The Picture of Their Changed Fortunes Struck Turnus Dumb, Bewildered Him 65. Book XII: So Then They Drew Apart, Leaving a Space in the Midst for Combat 66. Book XII: Meantime the King of All-Powerful Olympus Addresses Juno 67. Book XII: Juno: It Is Because Your Wishes, Great Consort, Were Known to Me 68. Book XII: Turnus, Shaking His Head Replied