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Unit 1 – Teacher's Choice – Latin Prose

Epitaphs and Inscriptions

1.1 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 1, Lines 1-209

1.2 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 1, Lines 418–440

1.3 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 1, Lines 494–578

Unit 2 – Pliny's Letters: Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

2.1 Caesar, Gallic War, Book 1, Chapters 1–7

2.2 Caesar, Gallic War, Book 6, Chapters 13–20

2.3 Pliny Letter 6.20.1-10 Study Guide

2.4 Pliny Letter 6.20.11-20 Study Guide

Unit 3 – Pliny's Letters: Ghosts and Apparitions, Letters to Trajan and Calpurnia, and Teacher's Choice – Latin Prose

3.1 Book II

3.2 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 2, Lines 201–249

3.4 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 2, Lines 559–620

3.4 Letters 10.37 and 10.90 - Letters to Emperor Trajan, Aqueducts

3.5 Letters 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7 - Letters to Emperor Trajan, Citizenship for Pliny's Doctor Study Guide

Unit 4 – Teacher's Choice – Latin Poetry and Vergil's Aeneid, Excerpts from Books 1 and 2

4.1 Book IV

4.2 Book IV

4.3 Book IV

4.6 Vergil Aeneid Book 2 Lines 40-56, 201-249 Study Guide

Unit 5 – Vergil's Aeneid, Excerpts from Books 4, 6, 7, 11, and 12

5.1 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 4 Lines 160-218

5.2 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 4 Lines 259-295

5.3 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 4 Lines 296-361

5.4 Vergil, Aeneid, Book 4 Lines 659-705

5.5 Vergil Aeneid Book 11 Lines 532-594 Camilla

5.7 Vergil Aeneid Book 12 Lines 919-952

Unit 6 – Course Project and Teacher's Choice – Latin Poetry

Sulpicia Six Poems Study Guide

Tibullus Books 2.4 Study Guide

Renaissance Latin Poetry

Ovid Metamorphoses Similes and Metaphors

Ovid Metamorphoses 8 611-724 Philemon Baucis Study Guide

Luisa Sigea de Velasco Syntra

Modern Latin Poetry

Ovid Metamorphoses 15.745-879 Celebration Caesars Study Guide

Ovid Metamorphoses 7 183-235 Daedalus Icarus Study Guide

Vergil Georgics: Orpheus and Eurydice

Carmina Epigraphica

6.1 Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, Part I, Chapters 24-26

6.2 Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, Part I, Chapters 27-29

6.2 Teacher's Choice Poetry, approx. 250 words

6.3 Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, Part I, Chapters 30-32

6.4 Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, Part I, Chapters 33-35

6.5 Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, Part I, Chapters 36-37

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