AP Latin Podcast: Recent Episodes
Hayden Lane
The goal of this podcast will be to cover the lines from Caesar’s De Bello Gallico and Vergil’s Aeneid that are found on the AP Latin curriculum. My aim is to provide a resource for Latin students and teachers as they work through the required readings in an AP Latin class, but you can get something out of the podcast even if you aren't part of an AP class.
Each two-part episode will cover a selection of lines from Caesar and Vergil. I will present both the Latin and English of the text, providing relevant clarification, background, and cultural information that will help put the readings in their proper context.
Each episode will conclude with some Essential Questions to consider as you process through the meaning of the text.
The final Vergil episode: “Oh poor Marcellus! You were too young to die, dear Marcellus!” [looks over to see how Augustus is reacting] “Oh poor, dear Marcellus!”
The final Caesar episode: joint savings accounts, torturing suspect widows, funeral pyres, and government censorship
“Oh...Hey, Dido. What are you doing all the way down here in the Underworld? Do you want to talk with your ghost dad too?”
Maybe the Gauls aren’t all that different from us -- except for raising their kids. They’re kind of weird about that.
Dido’s Death. (Special thanks to my wonderful wife who provided English voices for both Dido and Anna)
The breakup conversation. (Special thanks to my wonderful wife who provided Dido’s English voice)
Aeneas relationship advice -- How to break up with your girlfriend in two easy steps: 1) Don’t tell her 2) Plan to leave the country
The passive voice is used. High School English teachers are greatly troubled. A research paper is failed.
Ilioneus: “I’m angry because of that thing that happened.” Dido: “So you wanna live here?” (special thanks to my wonderful wife who provided an English voice for Dido)