AP Latin Texts


Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to present a full lineup of new texts to align with the College Board's announced AP® Latin curriculum changes. We are offering 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 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 help teachers and students move quickly and with confidence through the readings.

Check out our primary texts and enrichment resources. In addition, we have assembled a set of resources for the AP classroom.

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Guide to AP Latin

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Pliny

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Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts

 Jacqueline M. Carlon

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 “teacher choice” selections (3,541 words) 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.

Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts 21 Page Sample

 This 21-page sample for Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts shows the Table of Contents and the style of notes and vocabulary for both the Letters of Pliny and the Companion Texts. Note that the Letters are glossed in the “Pharr” style and the Companion Texts are glossed in a more typical commentary style. The “teacher’s choice” letters and companion texts were selected to have interesting intersections with the required letters from Pliny and the required selections from the poetry portions of the College Board syllabus.

Pliny Enrichment Resources


Vergil

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Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts

 By Barbara Weiden Boyd

Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required passages from Vergil’s Aeneid. An additional 15 lines from the Aeneid round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “teacher choice” selections (3,880 words) from Latin poetry that complement Vergil’s work, from the elegies of Catullus to the epic of Petrarch.

Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts 19 Page Sample

This 19-pages sample for Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts shows the Table of Contents and the style of notes and vocabulary for both the Vergil selections and the Companion Texts.

Vergil Enrichment Resources

Lumina: Pliny and Vergil Selections

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Lumina: Pliny and Vergil Selections

 Exercises created by David Pellegrino and Ella Wallace

LUMINA: Pliny and Vergil online exercises prepare students for the challenges of the AP® Latin Exam. Hundreds of multiple choice question cover ALL syllabus selections from Vergil’s Aeneid and the letters of Pliny the Younger. These automatically-graded activities model exam format and provide students with detailed immediate feedback.

Additional multiple choice question sets promote close reading of companion texts, which meet the teacher’s choice component of the new AP® Latin syllabus. These optional readings are included alongside expert commentary in Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts and Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts. With LUMINA, students receive invaluable support as they read widely from a variety of unadapted Latin texts.

Recorded AP Webinars

Pliny and Vergil Content including LUMINA

presented by Bridget Dean (07.23.25)
Link to the recorded webinar passcode: k14E*7uA
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

Pliny and Vergil Content including LUMINA

presented by Bridget Dean (07.21.25)
Link to the recorded webinar passcode: v65*m^mS
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

“Here Comes Pliny! An Introduction to the Man and His Works”

presented by Jacqueline Carlon In order to help teachers prepare themselves and their students for the new AP Latin curriculum, we are happy to share a recording of the webinar “Here Comes Pliny! An Introduction to the Man and His Works” presented by Jacqueline Carlon, author of Bolchazy-Carducci’s forthcoming Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts.

Link to the recorded webinar "Here Comes Pliny!" and passcode: qb&D8^9b
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

“The Voices of Women in the New AP Curriculum” presented by Barbara Weiden Boyd

In order to help teachers prepare themselves and their students for the new AP Latin curriculum, we are happy to share some notes and a recording of the webinar “The Voices of Women in the New AP Curriculum” presented by Barbara Weiden Boyd, author of Bolchazy-Carducci's forthcoming Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts.

Notes and Resource list from the webinar.

Link to the recorded webinar "The Voices of Women in the New AP Curriculum" and passcode: mp!Kf0.K
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

"Authors Introduce Our New AP Latin Texts Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts and A Pliny Workbook: Letters and Suggested Companion Texts" presented by Jacqueline Carlon & Gregory P. Stringer


Link to the recorded webinar "Authors Introduce Our New AP Latin Texts Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts and A Pliny Workbook: Letters and Suggested Companion Texts" and passcode: Jq$j?s0*
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

"Authors Introduce Our New AP Latin Texts Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts and A Vergil Workbook: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts" presented by Barbara Weiden Boyd & Katherine Bradley


Link to the recorded webinar "Authors Introduce Our New AP Latin Texts Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts and A Vergil Workbook: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts" and passcode: 0K37$Ic!
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

"Introducing Pliny and Vergil LUMINA" presented by David Pellegrino


Link to the recorded webinar "Introducing Pliny and Vergil LUMINA" and passcode: a5^gZ!8e
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.