raffaelllllo:[…] Then Iopas,long-haired bard, strikes up his golden lyreresounding through th

raffaelllllo:[…] Then Iopas,long-haired bard, strikes up his golden lyreresounding through the halls. Giant Atlashad been his teacher once, and now he singsthe wandering moon and laboring sun eclipsed,the roots of the human race and the wild beasts,the source of storms and the lightning bolts on high,Arcturus, the rainy Hyades and the Great and Little Bears,and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl …(Vergil, Aeneid, I, 740-746, trans. Robert Fagles)illustration inspired by one of my favourite parts of the aeneid -- source link

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