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; 20 supplementary.
Vergil's Aeneid
Book 1
Book 2
Book 4
- Aeneid 4.74–89Dido Feels the Effect of Cupidpoetry16 lines94 words
- Aeneid 4.160–164The Storm Breaks on the Huntsupplementarypoetry5 lines30 words
- Aeneid 4.165–197The Cave and Rumorpoetry33 lines216 words
- Aeneid 4.259–295Mercury's Messagesupplementarypoetry37 lines240 words
- Aeneid 4.296–304Dido Senses the Deceptionsupplementarypoetry9 lines53 words
- Aeneid 4.305–361Aeneas Leaves Didopoetry57 lines387 words
Book 6
- Aeneid 6.295–332Charon and the Unburied Deadsupplementarypoetry38 lines248 words
- Aeneid 6.384–425Crossing the Styx and Cerberussupplementarypoetry42 lines275 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 6.854–899Marcellus and the Gates of Sleepsupplementarypoetry46 lines305 words
Book 7
Pliny's Letters
Book 6
- Letters 6.4To Calpurnia: Anxiety in Her Absenceprose5 §§121 words
- Letters 6.7To Calpurnia: Reading Her Lettersprose3 §§75 words
- Letters 6.16.1–12The Eruption of Vesuvius: Pliny the Elder Sets Outprose12 §§417 words
- Letters 6.16.13–22The Eruption of Vesuvius: The Death of Pliny the Elderprose10 §§313 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
Book 7
- Letters 7.5To Calpurnia: Sleepless Nightssupplementaryprose2 §§83 words
- Letters 7.24Ummidia Quadratilla and Her Pantomimessupplementaryprose9 §§294 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
Book 10
- Letters 10.5To Trajan: Citizenship for Harpocrasprose2 §§69 words
- Letters 10.6To Trajan: Thanks and a Further Requestprose2 §§117 words
- Letters 10.7Trajan's Reply on Harpocrasprose1 §§45 words
- Letters 10.33To Trajan: The Fire at Nicomediasupplementaryprose3 §§94 words
- Letters 10.34Trajan's Reply: No Firefighters' Guildsupplementaryprose2 §§71 words
- Letters 10.37To Trajan: The Aqueduct at Nicomediaprose3 §§124 words
- Letters 10.38Trajan's Reply on the Aqueductsupplementaryprose1 §§54 words
- Letters 10.39To Trajan: Unfinished Buildings at Nicaea and Claudiopolissupplementaryprose6 §§257 words
- Letters 10.40Trajan's Reply on the Buildingssupplementaryprose3 §§106 words
- Letters 10.90To Trajan: Water for Sinopeprose2 §§62 words