Barbara Weiden Boyd, PhD
Barbara Weiden Boyd is the Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College, where she teaches courses in Greek and Latin languages and literatures, classical mythology, the city of Rome, and the Roman family. Boyd earned her BA in Classics at Manhattanville College, and holds an MA and PhD in classical studies from the University of Michigan. She has also taught at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome as a visiting professor for Duke and Stanford Universities, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation near Genoa, Italy, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She is a former chair of the AP Latin Test Development Committee of the Educational Testing Service and AP Latin consultant for the College Board. She has served in various leadership roles, including as president for the Vergilian Society. Boyd specializes in Latin literature, especially the poetry of Vergil and Ovid. Boyd is the author of Ovid's Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores (University of Michigan Press, 1997); Brill's Companion to Ovid (Brill Academic Publisher, 2002), an edited collection of scholarly essays on the Ovidian corpus; and a textbook for intermediate Latin students, Vergil's Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, & 12 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2001) and its revised edition Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012). Boyd's other publications include Vergil's Aeneid: Expanded Collection, Vergil's Aeneid: 8 & 11: Italy and Rome, Vergil's Aeneid: 10 & 12: Pallas & Turnus. She is the coauthor with Katherine Bradley of A Vergil Workbook, Second Edition (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012).
Books by Barbara Weiden Boyd, PhD
A Vergil Workbook, Second Edition
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- 978-0-86516-774-2
This Aeneid workbook has been carefully constructed by experienced teachers for students of Vergil at both the college and high school level. The workbook contains all the required reading for the 2012–2013 AP* Latin Exam, which focuses on key passages in the epic. The passages, divided into lessons, are accompanied by a set of 5–6 exercises that enable students to improve their Latin comprehension skills, and maximize their understanding of Vergil's multilayered epic masterpiece. A set of exercises teaches how to approach a Latin sight passage.
Vergil's Aeneid 10 & 12 : Pallas & Turnus: Teacher's Guide
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- 978-0-86516-428-4
Teacher's Guide for Vergil's Aeneid 10 & 12 provides Latin text, translation, and discussion questions.
Vergil's Aeneid 10 & 12: Pallas & Turnus
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- 978-0-86516-415-4
This annotated and selected intermediate-level Latin text is designed as a supplement to Pharr's Aeneid, for college, AP*, and high school classrooms. This edition provides the current AP* syllabus passages from the last six books of Vergil's masterpiece, the Aeneid. It is excellent for college use, as well, to give students using Pharr a sample of readings beyond the first six books.
Vergil's Aeneid 8 & 11: Italy and Rome
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- 978-0-86516-580-9
Latin text of 395 lines of the Aeneid (608–731: shield of Aeneas; 11.498–596—introduction to Camilla; 11.664–835—Camilla's heroicism and defeat), with same-page vocabulary and notes. These passages introduce episodes that can only enrich and deepen appreciation for and understanding of Vergil's poetic project. Vergil's description of the scenes on shield presented to the uncomprehending Aeneas, and of the heroism and defeat, through trickery and misplaced desire, of Camilla (deemed "Italy's ormanment," by Turnus), when considered side by side, invite readers to scrutinize the relationship, both strained and intimate, between Italy and Rome, and to shed light on Vergil's complex undrestanding of that relationship. This edition also includes a glossary of rhetorical terms and figures of speech mentioned in the passages, a selected bibliography, and a full vocabulary.
Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6
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- 978-0-86516-764-3
This text—an updated and revised version of selected passages from Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI—is designed for college and high school Advanced Placement* courses. It includes all the required Latin selections from Vergil's Aeneid for the 2012–2013 AP* Latin Curriculum.
Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6
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- 978-0-86516-765-0
This text—an updated and revised version of selected passages from Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI—is designed for college and high school Advanced Placement* courses. It includes all the required Latin selections from Vergil's Aeneid for the 2012–2013 AP* Latin Curriculum.
Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6 Teacher's Guide
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- 978-0-86516-766-7
This Teacher’s Guide is an invaluable aid. It will help the busy teacher in preparing class, leading discussion, guiding analysis, and making up quizzes and exams.
