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Winter 2025 Webinars

Join us for our 14th year of providing the classics community this complimentary professional development series of webinars.

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

5:00–5:45 pm Central Time

“The Voices of Women in the New AP Curriculum”

With the new AP Latin curriculum, students will encounter both Dido and Camilla in the Aeneid. The new set of suggested readings will also include the Latin poet Sulpicia, and will introduce other memorable female characters in Latin poetry: Ariadne, Ovid’s wife and daughter, and, from Petrarch’s Africa, Sophonisba. Professor Boyd will introduce webinar attendees to these figures and their place in Latin literature.

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). For the new AP Latin Curriculum, Boyd has authored the forthcoming Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts and is coauthoring, with Katherine Bradley, the new A Vergil Workbook.

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