Vergil’s Aeneid - Advanced Placement

Recommended Prerequisite: Latin I, II, and III

Credit: ½ - 1

State Code: 3035

MNPS Course Code: FLA1763

Course Description: 

This course is designed by the College Board to be equivalent to a second year college class which focuses on the Aeneid as a whole, while translating selected portions. Translation from Vergil’s Aeneid, with careful study of the themes, scansion, allusions, figures of speech, and other poetic devices are studied.  The passages translated include, but are not limited to those required by the advanced placement syllabus.  The study of the Aeneid as exemplar of the epic genre requires comparative analytic study of the Aeneid, Books I-XII, and other selected epics including, but not limited to the Iliad and the Odyssey.  Sight reading, grammar, vocabulary, collateral readings, close analysis of passages and projects are incorporated by the teacher, guided by Vergil advanced placement objectives.

Course of Study:

Students are expected to be able to translate accurately from Latin into English the poetry or prose they are reading and to demonstrate a grasp of grammatical structures and vocabulary.  Since the appreciation of Latin literature requires an understanding of the literary techniques of Latin writers and of poetic meters when appropriate, stylistic analysis is an integral part of the advanced work.  In addition, AP Latin courses include the study of the cultural, social, and political context of the literature on the syllabus.

Standards

Standards are based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) standards, College Board’s Vergil Aeneid syllabus and Tennessee standards.

ACTFL: http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3392#standdards

College Board: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com

Tennessee Standards: http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/ciforeignlang/ciflclassic.htm .

Textbook

 No MNPS purchased textbook is available.

Vergil’s Aeneid is required.

Recommended Resources

Information about resources, materials, conferences, study opportunities and scholarships for teachers, competitive opportunities and scholarships for students, and grants for promotion of Latin are available from The American Classical League, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and from The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (See www.camws.org and www.promotelatin.org .)  A number of useful web sites for students and teachers can be accessed through the American Classical League and the Junior Classical League.  (Try the links on http://www.tjcl.org, as well as sites operated by the Medusa Mythology Exam, the National Latin Exam, V-Roma, and Forum Romanum.)