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Abney Website: Ap Vergil's Aeneid

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive teacher-created resource provides many resources for teaching the "Aeneid." Lots of help on vocabulary, scansion tests, and figures of speech. Activities for every book.
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The Roman World 509 b.c. To a.d. 180

For Students 9th - 10th
This narrative site provides great overview to life in ancient Rome and Roman history. The geography, early settlers, Roman monarchy, Roman conquest of Italy are all mentioned.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: The Golden Asse by Apuleius

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides multiple formats of William Adlington's translation of Lucius Apuleius' work. The online text was taken from the 1639 edition. Choose the HTML version to read the text online.
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Middlebury College

Middlebury College: Publius Vergilius Maro

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article surveys the life and epic poetry of Vergil.
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Website
Other

The Augustan Period, Vergil, and the Aeneid

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explores the relationship between the Augustan period of Roman literature, its most famous poet, and his greatest work. Provides good background to the life of Vergil and the genre of epic poetry.
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Classics Pages: Virgil's Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Classics pages offers a summary and examples of Latin poetry by Virgil, like the Georgics, the Aeneid, and more.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Horace

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This biography of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace, profiles the Roman lyric poet and satirist as well as feature quotes from his work and a bibliography.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Virgil

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This biography of Virgil, author of the famous Roman epic The Aeneid, is complemented by selected quotes from his works and a detailed bibliography.
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Able Media

Able Media: A Modern Student's Guide to Catullus

For Students 9th - 10th
The Modern Student's Guide to Catullus by Raymond M. Koehler brings the poems of the Roman poet Catullus and the Latin language to life through song and story.
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Figures of Speech Syntax Exercise

For Students 9th - 10th
Wonderful exercise uses lines from Book II of Vergil's "Aeneid," to test mastery of rhetorical devices that pertain to syntax. Encourages practice of many skills.
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Able Media

Classics Tech Center: Using Latin Poetry at Low Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
Site presents ten techniques for introducing authentic Latin poetry to students in lower level Latin classes. The author focuses on Martial and Catullus.
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Able Media

Reading Vergil's "Aeneid"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehensive site delves into the reading and study of Vergil's master work, "The Aeneid". Begins with discussions about the genre of epic and the historical events that influenced Vergil's work. Finally, the author gives a multitude of...
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Able Media

Figures of Speech: Rhetoric Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a great exercise that helps students practice identifying and translating rhetorical devices in Latin poetry. Uses examples from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.
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Other

Reflections on Ovid's Metamorphoses

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting commentary and analysis of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Examples in the essay are linked to the poem itself. Topics range from the nature of the gods and goddess to many Roman virtues. Good reading!
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Other

The Works of Publius Vergilus Maro in Latin

For Students 9th - 10th
The Aeneid, The Eclogues, and The Georgics in their complete Latin glory. No notes, no glossary, just straight Latin. Great for cutting and pasting for your own reading and translating!
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Website
Other

Scansion of Latin Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Good introduction and reference to the rules of Latin scansion and meter.
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Other

Gaius Valerius Catullus

For Students 9th - 10th
Good introductory biography of the Roman poet Catullus. Explores not only the man but his work as well, focusing on the influence of Alexandrian and Hellenic poetry on his own poetry. Cites his poems as support for the facts of his life.
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Hoocher: Figures of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of figures of speech and their definitions with examples from literature.
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Virginia Tech

Electronic Antiquity: Communicating the Classics

For Students 9th - 10th
Electronic Antiquity is a scholarly journal with an emphasis on editorial articles, reviews and announcements.