Latin+Readings

• Background Topics
toc = = = =

• Latin Readings with Background Topics by Weeks (I-X)
I. //Aeneid// I: Prologue: 1-33 //Aeneid// I: Juno and Aeolus: 34-80 //Aeneid// I: Venus' Complaint: 229-253  Dactylic Hexameter Verse II. //Aeneid// I: Jupiter’s Prophecy: 257-296 //Aeneid// I: The Temple of Juno : 459-493 //Aeneid// I: Aeneas Appears to Dido: 586-612  Epic Style: (simile, catalogue, prologue) III. //Aeneid// II: Aeneas Begins: 1-13 //Aeneid// II: Laocoon 199-233 //Aeneid// II: Hector: 267-296 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The //Gens Iulia//: Aeneas and Augustus <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">IV. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// II: Priam: 505-558 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// II: Creusa: 768-795 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// II: Sunrise 796-804 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The End of the Roman ResPublica <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">V. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// IV: Dido and Anna: 1-30; 54-85 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// IV: The Hunt: 129-150 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// IV: Mercury Appears: 260-278 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Aeneid// III: Abortive Foundation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">VI. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// IV: Dido and Aeneas Part: Three Speeches: 296-392 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Tripartite Structure in the //Aeneid//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">VII: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// VI: Sibyl: 77- 96 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// VI: Prayer and Vestibulum: 264-280 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// VI: Charon: 295-330; 384-416 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Symbols of //Auctoritas//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">VIII. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// VI: Dido: 426-476 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// VI: Deiphobus: 494-512; 535-547 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// VI: The Gates: 893-901 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Vergil’s Contemporaries

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">IX. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// VIII: The Presentation of the Shield: 608-641 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// VIII: The Battle of Actium: 671-731 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Shield of Achilles (//Iliad// xviii) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">X. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// X: The Death of Pallas: 439-497: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">//Aeneid// XII: The Death of Turnus: 930-952 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Some Vergilian Receptions