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Lays of Ancient Rome

Written by: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Narrated by: Tom Logan
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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.
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perhaps tittles incorrectly?

A bit on the academic side, takes a lot of time to get to the poems but beautiful prose when you finally get to it.

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