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Two authors, two movements. First Pliny's prose, then Vergil's poetry. Click into any passage to start.
Pliny's Letters: Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
August 24, AD 79. Vesuvius erupts. Pliny the Younger writes to Tacitus about the day his uncle sailed toward the eruption. He never came back.
After this unit: You can read Pliny's prose, identify his rhetorical style, and place his letters in historical context.
Pliny's Letters: Ghosts and Apparitions, Letters to Trajan and Calpurnia, and Teacher's Choice - Latin Prose
A haunted house in Athens. A governor's correspondence with Emperor Trajan. Love letters to his wife. Pliny's range is the point. So is yours.
After this unit: You can handle multiple prose genres: narrative, administrative, and personal.
Teacher's Choice - Latin Poetry and Vergil's Aeneid, Excerpts from Books 1 and 2
You cross from prose into poetry. Vergil opens the Aeneid: 'Arms and the man I sing.' The Trojan Horse. Laocoon's warning. The epic begins.
After this unit: You can read dactylic hexameter, identify poetic devices, and analyze how Vergil builds scenes.
Vergil's Aeneid, Excerpts from Books 4, 6, 7, 11, and 12
Dido burns. Aeneas descends to the Underworld. Camilla charges into battle. Turnus falls. This is the emotional core of the Aeneid, and of the exam.
After this unit: You can interpret character, theme, and authorial intent across extended passages of Latin poetry.
AP Latin Exam
3 hours. The exam draws from these required passages plus sight Latin from outside authors. The vocabulary, parsing, and comprehension skills you build here carry you through both.