Why an AP® Latin Literature Course?
You have mastered the basics of the Latin language. Your understanding of English grammar has improved, your English vocabulary has grown and your deductive reasoning skills have been honed. Some of you may have discovered ease in learning a modern language. What next? As a young child you learned to ride a bike, probably in a driveway. Next you were allowed on sidewalks and eventually, roads permitting it, you were riding to work or school. Some may have entered races; some may participated in bike trips. You are ready for the Latin bike trip…to open new doors and enjoy the language fully in its literature. Certainly you can read translations, some of which are indeed excellent. However, no translation can replace original text. The innuendo, tone and rhetoric, even the meaning of certain phrases, tend to be lost in translation. There is of course more literature written in Latin than one can study in one school year. This course is designed to allow students to peek through the key
