AP Latin Texts

NEW 2025 AP Latin Curriculum Changes Pliny and Vergil

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to be working on a full lineup of new texts to align with the College Board's announced AP Latin curriculum changes. We will offer our acclaimed Pharr-style student textbooks, comprehensive workbooks, notebooks, and an online component (LUMINA) to help teachers and students prepare for the exam. Our books will include all of the required readings and additional selections chosen by expert teacher-scholars. Usability features, such as glossaries, frequent-vocabulary lists, a rhetorical device appendix, and more will help teachers and students move quickly and with confidence through the readings.

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Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts

Barbara Weiden Boyd
Student Text: (forthcoming, 2025) 6” x 9” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-890-9; Hardbound, ISBN 978-0-86516-889-3
Teacher’s Guide: (forthcoming, 2025) 6” x 9” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-891-6

Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required passages from Vergil’s Aeneid. An additional 258 lines from the Aeneid round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “choice” selections (602 lines) from Latin poetry that complement Vergil’s work, from the elegies of Catullus to the epic of Petrarch.

Features • General introduction on Vergil’s life, works, and influence • Timeline and bibliography • Aeneid unadapted Latin passages: Book 1.1–33, 88–107, 496–508; Book 2.40–56, 201–249; Book 4.74–89, 165–197, 305–361, 450–641; Book 6.450–476, 788–800, 847–853; Book 7.45–58, 756–846; Book 11.532–594; Book 12.791–796, 803–828, 919–952 with same-page vocabulary and notes • Introductory notes for each section • Companion texts with introductory notes and same-page running commentary • Latin-English glossary

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Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts

Jacqueline M. Carlon
Student Text: (forthcoming, 2025) 6” x 9” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-885-5; Hardbound, ISBN 978-0-86516-883-1
Teacher’s Guide: (forthcoming, 2025) 6” x 9” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-886-2

Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required letters by Pliny the Younger. Ten additional epistles round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “choice” selections from Latin prose that complement Pliny’s work, from inscriptions to the letters of Cicero to the history of Eutropius. Short excerpts from the eighteenth-century poetic work Rusticatio Mexicana further illuminate Pliny’s subject matter and themes.

Features • General introduction on Pliny’s life, works, and influence • Bibliography • Pliny’s Letters unadapted Latin passages: 1.6; 2.6; 6.4, 7, 16, 20; 7.5, 24, 27; 9.6; 10.5, 6, 7, 37, 90 with same-page vocabulary and notes • Introductory notes for each letter • Companion texts with introductory notes and same-page running commentary • Latin-English glossary

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