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Reading this for my Classical Literature class

The Vision of Rome's Future
^they came
To places of delight, to green park land,
Where souls take ease amid the Blessed Groves.
Wider expanses of high air endow
Each vista with a wealth of light. Souls here
Possess their own familiar sun and stars.^

Palinurus
^Virgil, a perfectionist if ever there was one (he took seven years to produce the 2,000 lines of the Georgics), told his friend Varius to destroy the manuscript. Augustus, however, who had heard Virgil reading from the finished portions of it, ordered that it be preserved and published.^

The Passion of the Queen
^The man by Jove's command held fast his eyes
And fought down the emotion in his heart.^

The Death of Priam
^The boy has reached his parents, and before them
Goes down, pouring out his life with blood.^

The Death of Priam
^What was the fate of Priam, you may ask.
Seeing his city captive, seeing his own
Royal portals rent apart, his enemies
In the inner rooms, the old man uselessly
Put on his shoulders, shaking with old age,
Armor unused for years, belted a sword on,
And made for the massed enemy to die.^

Prologue
^For years
They wandered as their destiny drove them on
From one sea to the next: so hard and huge
A task it was to found the Roman people.^

Reading Virgil's works

—Georgics
1. Orpheus and Eurydice

—The Aeneid
1. Prologue
2. Book I—Aeneas at Carthage
3. Book II—The Death of Priam
4. Book IV—The Passion of the Queen
5. Book V—Palinurus
6. Book VI—Entry Into the Lower World
7. Dido's Ghost
8. The Vision of Rome's Future
9. Book XII—The Future of Italy

Book II
^Love is a frenzy, and it has no limit;
no love, if it is true, is ever done.^

Book I
^Many have been the men who were glad
to die in the extremity of length of love:^

Propertius
^Love, in Propertius, is no light matter. His Eros is not the pretty boy of Apollonius, but a demonic power that enslaves him. Yet his celebration of love's dominion over him is often combined with visions of death,^

The Fall of the Monarchy
^My body only has been violated. My heart is innocent, and death will be my witness.^

The Beginning
^Romulus' overtures were nowhere favourably received; it was clear that everyone despised the new community, and at the same time feared, both for themselves and for posterity, the growth of this new power in their midst.^

Reading Livy's work

—The History of Rome
1. The Beginning
2. The Fall of the Monarchy
3. Heroes of the Republic

Reading Propertius' work

—Elegies, Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV

Horace, Satires
^we discuss things which affect us more nearly and which one ought
to know about:
what is the key to happiness, money or moral character?
In making friends are we motivated by self-interest or idealism?
What is the nature of goodness, and what is its highest form?^

Horace, Satires
^Janus is the god of beginnings (hence January). The word translated as "guarantor" means someone who stands surety for a friend at a trial; to do so for someone influential would earn favor that would prove useful—hence the admonition to hurry up.^

Horace, Book III, #6
^Though innocent you shall atone for the crimes
of your fathers, Roman, until you have restored
the temples and crumbling shrines of the Gods
and their statues grimy with smoke.^

Horace, Book I, #24
^Loss hurts. Yet patience helps us to endure
The ills no human should presume to cure.^

Horace, Book I, #9
^Let be whatever comes tomorrow, reckoning
Pure gain whatever gift of days your fortune
Yields, and in youth be not disdainful
Of love, in all its sweetness; dance,^

Reading Horace's work

-Odes—Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV
-Satires