They learn all figures of speech used in the Aeneid and analyze all selections translated. A unit on mythology in Gayley's Classic Myths is included. The text is Clyde Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid . Students who complete this course may take the Advanced Placement examination. Offered in alternate years.
Students study the oral reading of Latin poetry and the use of meter.
They learn figures of speech used by these writers. They translate and analyze selections from Catullus's poetry and Ovid's Metamorphoses . The textbooks are Richard LaFleur's An Ovid Reader and Bender and Forsyth's Catullus . Students who complete the course may take the Advanced Placement Examination. Offered in alternate years.