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  • Virgil, Aeneid 4, with Study Questions, Vocabulary, and Commentary

    Serier Bog 8 - Classics Textbooks
    In Dido’s encounter with Aeneas, the Aeneid explores abiding themes of love and loyalty, fate and fortune, the justice of the gods, imperial ambitions and its victims, as well as cross-cultural encounters and the geopolitics of colonial settlement. As Aeneas’ most significant other, Dido also assumes a crucial role in Virgil’s epic aetiology of Roman history and the Augustan principate. She owns ... Læs mere

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  • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53–86

    Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation

    Serier Bog 1 - Classics Textbooks
    Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and ... Læs mere

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  • Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

    Serier Bog 6 - Classics Textbooks
    Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war.Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the ... Læs mere

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  • Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla), 1–224, 498–521, 532–96, 648–89, 725–835

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

    Serier Bog 7 - Classics Textbooks
    A dead boy (Pallas) and the death of a girl (Camilla) loom over the opening and the closing part of the eleventh book of the Aeneid. Following the savage slaughter in Aeneid 10, the book opens in a mournful mood as the warring parties revisit yesterday’s killing fields to attend to their dead. One casualty in particular commands attention: Aeneas’ protégé Pallas, killed and despoiled by Turnus in ... Læs mere

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