Required Readings

As mentioned in the course description, you will be required to read selections from Vergil and Pliny, as well as selections from other authors. Below is a list of the required readings for this course. Additional readings will be presented throughout the course. Use this list as a reference - each reading includes the unit in which it will be read.

Pliny the Younger, Letters

Book 6
- Letters 4 and 7: Letters to Calpurnia (Unit 3)
- Letter 16: Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and Pliny the Elder (Unit 2)
- Letter 20: Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and Pliny the Younger (Unit 2)
Book 7
- Letter 27: Ghost Stories (Unit 3)
Book 10
- Letters 5, 6 and 7: Letters to Emperor Trajan, Citizenship for Pliny's Doctor (Unit 3)
- Letters 37 and 90: Letters to Emperor Trajan, Aqueducts (Unit 3)

Vergil, Aeneid

Book 1
- Lines 1-33: The Epic Begins (Unit 4)
- Lines 88-107: The Storm (Unit 4)
- Lines 496-508: Queen Dido (Unit 4)
Book 2
- Lines 40-56 and 201-249: Laocoön and the Trojan Horse (Unit 4)
Book 4
- Lines 74-89: Dido Feels the Effect of Cupid (Unit 5)
- Lines 165-197: Rumor Reaches Jupiter (Unit 5)
- Lines 305-361: Aeneas Leaves Dido (Unit 5)
Book 6
- Lines 450-476: The Shade of Dido (Unit 5)
- Lines 788-800 and 847-853: Meeting Anchises (Unit 5)
Book 7
- Lines 45-58: King Latinus (Unit 5)
- Lines 783-792 and 803-817: Turnus Prepares for War (Unit 5)
Book 11
- Lines 532-594: The Story of Camilla (Unit 5)
Book 12
- Lines 791-796, 803-828, and 818-828: The Fate of the Trojans is Decided (Unit 5)
- Lines 919-952: The Final Battle of Aeneas and Turnus (Unit 5)

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