Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6

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
• Pull-out General Word List

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