Lays of Ancient Rome cover art

Lays of Ancient Rome

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 Months Free

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Get this deal
Offer ends on 15 July 2026 at 11:59 BST.
More purchase options

Lays of Ancient Rome

By: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Narrated by: Tom Logan
Get this deal

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £9.49

Buy Now for £9.49

Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these: Horatius, The Battle of Lake Regillus, Virginia and The Prophecy of Capys cover heroic episodes from early Roman history. They have brief introductions that treat the legends from a scholarly perspective.

Two others deal with more recent historical events: Ivry, a Song of the Huguenots, deals with French history, and The Armada: A Fragment, is about the Spanish fleet sent to subdue England. They became immensely popular in Victorian England, and were standard reading in British public schools for more than a century.

Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks
Europe European Poetry World Literature Ancient Rome England Ancient History
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet