Syllabus reading
Reading Room
Every passage on the official reading list, with the Latin, a click-any-word glossary, running notes, an English summary and context. 32 required passages; 17 supplementary.
Unit 2
Pliny’s Letters: Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius- Letters 6.16.1–12The Eruption of Vesuvius: Pliny the Elder Sets Outprose12 §§417 words
- Letters 6.20.1–10The Eruption of Vesuvius: The Younger Pliny at Misenumprose10 §§321 words
- Letters 6.20.11–20The Eruption of Vesuvius: Flight from Misenumprose10 §§347 words
- Letters 6.16.13–22The Eruption of Vesuvius: The Death of Pliny the Elderprose10 §§313 words
Unit 3
Pliny’s Letters: Ghosts, Trajan, and Calpurnia- Letters 6.4To Calpurnia: Anxiety in Her Absenceprose5 §§121 words
- Letters 6.7To Calpurnia: Reading Her Lettersprose3 §§75 words
- Letters 7.27.1–8Ghosts: Curtius Rufus and the Haunted Houseprose8 §§326 words
- Letters 7.27.9–16Ghosts: Athenodorus Follows the Phantomprose8 §§282 words
- Letters 10.7Trajan's Reply on Harpocrasprose1 §§45 words
- Letters 10.5To Trajan: Citizenship for Harpocrasprose2 §§69 words
- Letters 10.6To Trajan: Thanks and a Further Requestprose2 §§117 words
- Letters 10.37To Trajan: The Aqueduct at Nicomediaprose3 §§124 words
- Letters 10.90To Trajan: Water for Sinopeprose2 §§62 words
Unit 4
Teacher’s Choice Poetry and Aeneid 1–2Unit 5
Aeneid, Books 4, 6, 7, 11, and 12- Aeneid 4.74–89Dido Feels the Effect of Cupidpoetry16 lines94 words
- Aeneid 4.165–197The Cave and Rumorpoetry33 lines216 words
- Aeneid 4.305–361Aeneas Leaves Didopoetry57 lines387 words
- Aeneid 6.450–476The Shade of Didopoetry27 lines183 words
- Aeneid 6.788–800The Parade of Heroes: Augustuspoetry13 lines89 words
- Aeneid 6.847–853The Arts of Romepoetry7 lines41 words
- Aeneid 7.45–58King Latinuspoetry14 lines93 words
- Aeneid 7.783–792Turnus Prepares for Warpoetry10 lines65 words
- Aeneid 7.803–817Camilla Introducedpoetry15 lines96 words
- Aeneid 11.532–594The Story of Camillapoetry63 lines401 words
- Aeneid 12.791–796Jupiter Speaks to Junopoetry6 lines41 words
- Aeneid 12.803–812Juno Yieldspoetry10 lines69 words
- Aeneid 12.818–828Juno's Termspoetry11 lines71 words
- Aeneid 12.919–952The Final Battle of Aeneas and Turnuspoetry34 lines216 words
Supplementary
Not on the 2025 required listThese were required under the previous AP Latin syllabus. They are worth reading for context — several sit immediately beside required passages — but they will not appear as syllabus reading on the exam.
- Letters 1.6Hunting with a Notebookprose3 §§105 words
- Letters 2.6A Dinner Party and Social Rankprose7 §§226 words
- Letters 7.5To Calpurnia: Sleepless Nightsprose2 §§83 words
- Letters 7.24Ummidia Quadratilla and Her Pantomimesprose9 §§294 words
- Letters 9.6The Chariot Racesprose4 §§152 words
- Letters 10.38Trajan's Reply on the Aqueductprose1 §§54 words
- Letters 10.33To Trajan: The Fire at Nicomediaprose3 §§94 words
- Letters 10.34Trajan's Reply: No Firefighters' Guildprose2 §§71 words
- Letters 10.39To Trajan: Unfinished Buildings at Nicaea and Claudiopolisprose6 §§257 words
- Letters 10.40Trajan's Reply on the Buildingsprose3 §§106 words
- Aeneid 2.268–297The Ghost of Hectorpoetry30 lines199 words
- Aeneid 4.160–164The Storm Breaks on the Huntpoetry5 lines30 words
- Aeneid 4.259–295Mercury's Messagepoetry37 lines240 words
- Aeneid 4.296–304Dido Senses the Deceptionpoetry9 lines53 words
- Aeneid 6.295–332Charon and the Unburied Deadpoetry38 lines248 words
- Aeneid 6.384–425Crossing the Styx and Cerberuspoetry42 lines275 words
- Aeneid 6.854–899Marcellus and the Gates of Sleeppoetry46 lines305 words