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.
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Special Features
- General introduction on Vergil's life, works, and influence
- Timeline and bibliography
- Aeneid unadapted Latin passages (923 lines): Book 1.1–209, 418–440, 494–578; Book 2.40–56, 201–249, 268–297, 559–620; Book 4.160–218, 259–361, 659–705; Book 6.295–332, 384–425, 450–476, 847–899 with same-page vocabulary and notes
- Introductory notes for each section
- Four black-and-white illustrations by Thom Kapheim
- Select ancient illustrations
- Online grammatical appendix and grammatical index, including newly revised sections: "Vergil's Meter" and "Rhetorical Terms, Figures of Speech, and Metrical Devices"
- Latin-English vocabulary
- Printable General Word list
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Vergil was is influential literary figure from Roman antiquity down to the present day. Generations of students have studied his works as a means of gaining fluency in the Latin language. In "Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6", academician Barbara Weiden Boyd draws upon her many years of experience and expertise as the Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College to produce an annotated 298-page compendium specifically designed to be a curriculum text for high school and college 'Advanced Placement' courses. Beginning with an informed and informative introduction on the life and work of Vergil, "Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6" includes same-page vocabulary notes, a General Word List, a selected bibliography, and more. Highly recommended for academic library "Latin Language Studies" reference collections, "Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6" is ideal for a self-study Latin Studies personal reading list.
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