Virgil: Aeneid (Abridged)

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The Aeneid (more info)
Virgil,
John McAndrew, reader
Stephen Thorne, reader
Paul Scofield, reader
Toby Stephens, reader
Jill Balcon, reader
Geraldine Fitzgerald, narrator


1. Book I: I tell about war and the hero - 3:38
2. Book I: JUNO: Shall I give up? Own myself beaten? - 2:27
3. Book I: AEOLUS: O queen, it is for you to be fully aware what you ask - 1:32
4. Book I: AENEAS: Oh, thrice and four times blessed - 1:53
5. Book I: NEPTUNE: Does family pride tempt you to such impertinence? - 3:01
6. Book I: Jupiter from high heaven looked down - 6:16
7. Book I: NARRATOR: As they walked through the woods - 0:42
8. Book I: Meanwhile the two pressed on apace, where the track pointed - 1:47
9. Book I: There was a grove, most genial in its shade - 6:17
10. Book I: ILLIONEUS: O queen, who under God, have founded a city - 0:29
11. Book I: DIDO: Trojans, put fear away from your hearts, and forget your troubles! - 2:38
12. Book I: AENEAS: I am here, before you, the one you look for - 4:03
13. Book I: But Venus was meditating a new and artful scheme - 6:16
14. Book II: All fell silent now, and their faces were all attention - 5:07
15. Book II: AENEAS: We were tricked by cunning and crocodile tears - 4:01
16. Book II: So now the sky rolled round, and night raced up from the ocean - 3:48
17. Book II: Meantime, Troy was shaken through and through by her last pangs - 4:03
18. Book II: AENEAS: Not the Trojans alone paid their account in blood - 4:38
19. Book II: AENEAS: Inside the palace, all was confusion, groans, agony - 7:38
20. Book II: VENUS: My son, what anguish suprs you to this ungoverned rage? - 6:05
21. Book II: ANCHISES: O god omnipotent, if any prayers can sway you - 1:58

The Aeneid (more info)
Virgil,
John McAndrew, reader
Stephen Thorne, reader
Paul Scofield, reader
Toby Stephens, reader
Jill Balcon, reader
Geraldine Fitzgerald, narrator


1. Book II: AENEAS: Let little Ascanius walk beside me - 3:00
2. Book II: AENEAS: For a start, I returned to the shadowed gate in the city wall - 4:17
3. Book III: AENEAS: After the gods had seen fit to destroy our Asian empire - 3:11
4. Book IV: But now for some while the queen had been growing more grieviously love-sick - 4:21
5. Book IV: These words blew to a blaze the spark of love in the queen's heart - 5:48
6. Book IV: So now, as Aurora was rising out of her ocean bed - 4:30
7. Book IV: Jove Omnipotent bent down his gaze upon Dido's city - 6:33
8. Book IV: DIDO: Unfaithful man, did you think you could do such a dreadful thing? - 7:13
9. Book IV: With these words, Dido suddenly ended, and sick at heart - 4:49
10. Book IV: But hapless Dido, frightened out of her wits by her destiny - 7:44
11. Book IV: AENAS: Jump to it men! To your watch! Get to the rowing benches! - 2:00
12. Book IV: Trembling, distraught by the terrible thing she was doing - 6:04
13. Book V: Meanwhile, Aeneas held his fleet on its course through the deep sea - 2:24
14. Book VI: At long last they slid to the shores of Euboean Cumae - 4:20
15. Book VI: But the Sibyl, not yet submissive to Pheobus, there in her cavern - 7:14
16. Book VI: Now the doves, as they fed, flitted on from spot to spot - 5:47

The Aeneid (more info)
Virgil,
John McAndrew, reader
Stephen Thorne, reader
Paul Scofield, reader
Toby Stephens, reader
Jill Balcon, reader
Geraldine Fitzgerald, narrator


1. Book VI: A dreadful ferryman looks after the crossing - 5:28
2. Book VI: Huge Cerberus, monstrously couched in a cave confronting them - 3:26
3. Book VI: AENEAS: Poor unhappy Dido, so the message was true that came to me - 3:33
4. Book VI: Side by side they went the twilight way - 2:22
5. Book VI: Deep in a green valley stood father Anchises - 3:02
6. Book VI: When Anchises had finished he drew his son and the Sibyl - 6:56
7. Book VI: ANCHISES: But Romans, never forget that government is your medium! - 4:24
8. Book VII: Caeta too, who was nurse to Aeneas - 6:12
9. Book VII: Aeneas, his lieutenants and fair Ascanius - 6:54
10. Book VII: LATINUS: Trojans - oh yes, your city and line are not unknown to us - 4:12
11. Book VII: Latinus received this speech of Illioneus with a gaze - 2:56
12. Book VII: But look! From Argos, city of Inachus, now returning - 6:41
13. Book VII: QUEEN OF LATINUS: Husband, must our Lavinia be wed to a Trojan, an outcast? - 6:08
14. Book VII: TURNUS: I am not, as you seem to think, unaware - 8:28
15. Book VII: While they fought over the plain there, with neither side prevailing - 5:36
16. Book VII: Latinus said no more - 2:45

The Aeneid (more info)
Virgil,
John McAndrew, reader
Stephen Thorne, reader
Paul Scofield, reader
Toby Stephens, reader
Jill Balcon, reader
Geraldine Fitzgerald, narrator


1. Book VII: Five great towns establish workshops for the production of armaments - 1:00
2. Book VII: NARRATOR: Thus the seeds of war were sown - 4:14
3. Book XII: When Turnus saw that the Latins were crushed by defeat - 6:12
4. Book XII: The morrow's dawn was just beginning to shower its light - 4:57
5. Book XII: AENEAS: Let the sun witness my invocation now - 6:33
6. Book XII: So saying, he ran forward and launched a weapon right at the foe - 6:45
7. Book XII: Now while the victorious Turnus littered the battlefield with dead - 4:36
8. Book XII: When he had spoken, Aeneas sallied forth in his might - 6:44
9. Book XII: Aeneas and Turnus tore through the battle - 5:28
10. Book XII: A further calamity now befell the war-weary Latins - 6:22
11. Book XII: The picture of their changed fortunes struck Turnus dumb, bewildered him - 2:40
12. Book XII: So then they drew apart, leaving a space in the midst for combat - 7:54
13. Book XII: Meantime the king of all-powerful Olympus addresses Juno - 1:51
14. Book XII: JUNO: It is because your wishes, great consort, were known to me - 7:25
15. Book XII: Turnus, shaking his head replied - 6:05

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