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Course Description: This course is designed for fourth and fifth year students who have thoroughly mastered the forms and constructions of Latin prose and poetry and are ready to move onto an in-depth literary study of individual authors of prose and poetry. Students are expected to move beyond the mechanics of translation to literary and stylistic analysis of Latin prose and poetry. Precise knowledge of vocabulary, translation (prepared and at sight) and critical analysis are emphasized as preparation for the Advanced Placement Examination. Latin AP: Caesar &Vergil is a detailed course that focuses on Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico and Vergil’s Aeneid. The AP Syllabus (reading list) is precisely followed with additional passages from the corpus of Caesar and Virgil and related authors also read. Students are expected to learn the metrical patterns of hexametric poetry, to read and understand scholarly commentaries on Vergil’s Aeneid and Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico and to compose in English sensitive appraisals of the text on specified topics and themes. In accordance with the AP Syllabus selections from both Caesar and Vergil are read in English translation and analyzed from literary, cultural and historical perspectives. In conjunction with daily reading of Latin texts this course explores the social and political history of late Republican Rome and the early Principate.
**Ad Astra Per Aspera!**
**Ad Astra Per Aspera!**
Readings for AP Latin
Readings for AP Latin
The required syllabus lists the minimum number of readings that students need to study in Latin and in English. Encourage students who work quickly to read beyond the minimum for each language. Offer students many opportunities to develop the ability to read Latin poetry and prose at sight.
Required Readings in Latin
Required Readings in Latin
Vergil, Aeneid
Book 1: Lines 1-209, 418-440, 494-578
Book 2: Lines 40-56, 201-249, 268-297, 559-620
Book 4: Lines 160-218, 259-361, 659-705
Book 6: Lines 295-332, 384-425, 450-476, 847-899
Caesar, Gallic War
Book 1: Chapters 1-7
Book 4: Chapters 24-35 and the first sentence of Chapter 36
(Eodem die legati . . . venerunt.)
Book 5: Chapters 24-48
Book 6: Chapters 13-20
Required Readings in English
Required Readings in English
Vergil, Aeneid : Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12
Caesar, Gallic War : Books 1, 6, 7
Readings in English
Readings in English
The required syllabus includes readings in Latin and English from Vergil's Aeneid and Caesar’s Gallic War. Reading in English helps students identify significant themes, central characters, and key ideas in the Latin passages.
Reading Latin at Sight
Reading Latin at Sight
To develop students' ability to read Latin at sight, choose texts with relatively common vocabulary and straightforward grammar and syntax. Recommended prose authors include Nepos, Cicero (but not his letters), Livy, Pliny the Younger, and Seneca the Younger rather than Tacitus or Sallust. Recommended verse authors include Ovid, Martial, Tibullus, and Catullus, rather than Horace, Juvenal, or Lucan. We also recommend portions of the works of Vergil and Caesar that are outside the required reading. Teachers may use the works listed here to develop at-sight reading skills in preparation for the exam. The list is neither exclusive nor exhaustive.
Aeneid Overview and Background Videos
Aeneid Overview and Background Videos
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