O Tempestates! Some Storms in Ancient Poetry

28.10.2012 / BRET MULLIGAN / LATIN LITERATURE

• Pacuvius Teucer 350-365 W.
• Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.1-21 — how it is pleasant to see others in trouble:
• Horace, Odes 3.29: The Aegean Storm
• Vergil, Georgics 1.311-37
• Vergil, Aeneid 1.81-123 — The Trojans, in sight of their new home in Italy, are driven to Carthage (and trouble).
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.474-572 — Ceyx & the Tempest.
• Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 560-677 — description of the storm on the Adriatic sea during Caesar’s attempted crossing.
• Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica 1.574-692 — will the Argonauts be drowned before their adventure has scarcely begun?
• Silius Italicus, Punica 17. 201-90 — Hannibal, the Anti-Aeneas, sails from Italy to Africa.
• Statius, Thebaid 1.336-382 — a rare description of a storm on land, symbolizes the internal turmoil of Polyneices on the eve of civil war.
• Juvenal, Satire 12.1-82 — the merchant Catullus attempts to survive a storm.
• Aldhelm, Quando profectus fueram / A Storm in Devon

See also: https://bit.ly/3xWRY0V