Barbara Weiden BoydVergil's Aeneid: Expanded Collection

This is the perfect text for AP Latin in high school or for any college course! Containing all the passages relevant to the new AP Exam and a great deal more besides, this is the most user-friendly Virgil text on the market. Boyd gives clear definitions of obscure words and explains difficult passages, provides a foldout vocabulary list of the epic's most high-frequency words, and explains the references in the text which, while understood by Virgil's original audience, are often obscure today. This text allows the student to actually read and enjoy the Aeneid (arguably the greatest epic poem of antiquity...apologies to Homer who is Virgil's only rival) without constantly resorting to a dictionary or an index of proper names. I will be using this text with my upcoming AP Latin class. It is no small thing to create a text as well suited as this one to the needs of students who can learn to appreciate the inestimable beauty of Virgil. I also highly recommend the teacher's guide for its excellent literal translation and questions for in-class discussion. The growing number of schools dedicated to the Classical curriculum, and any institution offering Latin, will find in this text a welcome ally in making Virgil accessible in our time. Macte!

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A very reliable choice for 2nd year Latin. After you worked through Caesar's de bello and Cicero or Ovid's works, this book can be the best companion for you to venture into Vergil. Incredibly abundant notes and commentaries on grammars, sentence structures and historical reference. I highly recommend this book for self-learning or textbook at class.