The AP Latin Selections from Vergil's Aeneid

Preparation for the AP Latin exam offered in May

Welcome to one part of the the most popular Latin AP curriculum on Udemy!

These materials are designed to help students prepare their Latin for Vergil portion of the AP Latin exam.

As such, please keep in mind that they aren't for beginning Latin students, or even those who are just entering the intermediate level. The course is for students who've put in a couple of years of Latin grammar and elementary to intermediate Latin reading, and who are now ready for the next level: the prestigious Latin AP exam.

I mention this because occasionally a student without adequate preparation will attempt to take the class, only to find it's not at his/her level. This causes hard feelings, as you can detect in a recent review posted to Udemy: "difficult to follow a clear single line translation, he just gives parts of it and jumps to another part and jumps to another part, very unclear."

That's because this isn't a translation class. There are translation aplenty of the Aeneid. The purpose of my method is to get students so good at Latin that they aren't really "translating" most of it anymore, but just reading it. That takes time, but it is an achievable goal.

Here you will get extensive training translating literally, as well as scanning and interpreting the dactylic hexameter verse used by Vergil. Students will practice sight-reading and translating literally so that their translations not only are accurate and precise, but also make sense in English.

There are also additional materials to facility your study and review, such as a list of the common usages of the ablative case and subjunctive mood, a downloadable text with all the passages from Vergil required by the exam, including the sections required only in English, and preparatory lectures on the mechanics of Vergil's meter.