AP Latin Project Passage #3 this year is Ovid's version of "Arion and the Dolphin" from his Fasti poem, a didactic poem about the holidays and festivals of the Roman calendar. Interestingly enough, Pliny the Younger has a famous letter about friendly dolphins near a North African tidepool (Pl. Ep. 9.33) and Aulus Gellius also …
Continue reading NEW TIERED READINGS – AP Project Passage #3 (Ovid, Fasti 2.83–86, 95–100, 103–116)
Below are videos designed to introduce and guide AP Latin students through understanding, reading, and translating Pliny, Epistulae 6.7. Although these videos are aligned to my tiered reader Darkness Over Pompeii, they are useful for any textbook or curriculum. For more AP Latin video resources, check out the AP Resources page. Letter 2 Video: PictureTalk introducing the vocabulary, events, and themes of …
Continue reading Letter 2 – Absentiae et Libelli – Video Resources
AP Project passage #2 is an excerpt from the longest surviving personal Latin inscription, written by a husband (mostly likely Quintus Lucretius Vespillo) for his deceased wife Turia. The inscription dates from the 1st Century B.C., during the tumultuous times of Augustus' rise to power. Given the period of its composition (late Republican Rome) and …
Continue reading NEW TIERED READINGS – AP Project Passage #2 (Laudatio Turiae)
Below are videos designed to introduce and guide AP Latin students through understanding, reading, and translating Pliny, Epistulae 6.4.4-5. Although these videos are aligned to my tiered reader Darkness Over Pompeii, they are useful for any textbook or curriculum. For more AP Latin video resources, check out the AP Resources page. Letter 1B Video: PictureTalk introducing …
Continue reading Video Resources for Letter 1B: Calpurnia in Campania, Part 2
Frequent readers of my novellas may have notice a silent, subtle change in my most recent books: instead of listing my novellas in the order that they were published (which made sense when there were only three or four of them), I've decided to arrange and market them in a way that can be a …
This is the excerpt for your very first post.
Comprehensible Classics 