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AP Vergil

Latin AP Vergil

Advanced Placement Latin – Vergil is a course in which students read, translate, understand, analyze, and

interpret lines of the Aeneid in Latin.

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Students will:

1. Hear, discriminate, and imitate Latin vowel, consonant, diphthong sounds, stressed and unstressed

syllables; phrasing of continuous Latin passages; acceptable pronunciation intonation, and

phrasing.

2. Memorize important lines of the Aeneid including the first eleven lines of Book I.

3. Use grammar and syntax to read Vergil’s Aeneid.

• Reviewing all grammar

• Using morphology peculiar to poetry

• Using syncopated forms

• Using case: Genitive - appositional, partitive, specification, with verbs of plenty and

want; Dative – agent with the passive voice, separation, place to which, ethical dative;

Ablative – manner without cum even when not modified

• Using verbs: perfect participle of deponent verb used with passive force, infinitive of

purpose, infinitive instead of a substantive clause with the subjunctive introduced by ut,

infinitive with nouns and adjectives, infinitive with exclamations

• Using adjectives and participles: used freely with substantive force

• Using dactylic hexameter

• Using figures of speech and literary devices used by Vergil

4. Read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret the prescribed selections for the AP

Examination for the current school year.

5. Practice sight translation.

Examples: Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, Livy, and Pliny

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6. Use pertinent Roman cultural, social, and political history to understand the context of the work.

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7. Analyze works of art and literature that have been inspired by the Aeneid or contain allusions to

this work.

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8. Compare the literary epic and the oral epic as literary genre.

9. Define the parallels between the Aeneid and Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

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10. Utilize English derivatives for all words, vocabulary from authors studied.

11. Analyze current articles from newspapers and magazines that reference Vergil and the Aeneid to

further appreciate the continuing influence of this author.