NEW 2026 AP Latin Exam Curriculum Changes: Pliny and Vergil

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to present a full lineup of new texts to align with the College Board’s announced AP Latin curriculum changes. We are offering our acclaimed Pharr-style student textbooks, comprehensive workbooks, notebooks, and an online component (LUMINA) to help teachers and students prepare for the exam. Our books include all of the required readings and additional selections chosen by expert teacher-scholars. Usability features, such as glossaries, frequent-vocabulary lists, a rhetorical device appendix, and more help teachers and students move quickly and with confidence through the readings.

Watch here for updates and previews of the new materials.

update 10.27.25

We’re working hard to bring you the full suite of AP Latin support you expect from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. Our LUMINA online platform is live and ready for use.

Below is a breakdown of the remaining titles you may be planning to use this school year — including when to expect them, where to preview materials, and how to access sample content to help you start the semester with confidence.

Pliny Titles

Pliny Textbook (Paperback & Hardcover): Available — reach out if you have ordered and not received them. We will help you!
Pliny Textbook (eBook): Available from VitalSource and Google Play
Pliny Teacher Guide: Available; backorders have been shipped, reach out if you have ordered and not received them. We will help you!

Pliny Workbook (Paperback): Available
Pliny Workbook (eBook): Available from VitalSource and Google Play
Pliny Workbook Teacher Manual: Forthcoming – expected October 27
Sample chapters for review are available here.

Pliny Notebook: Available

Vergil Titles

Vergil Textbook (Paperback & Hardcover): Available
Vergil Textbook (eBook): Available from VitalSource and Google Play
Vergil Teacher Guide: Available; backorders have been shipped, reach out if you have ordered and not received them. We will help you!

Vergil Workbook: Available
Vergil Workbook & Teacher Manual: Available
Vergil Workbook (eBook): Available from VitalSource and Google Play
Sample chapters for review are available here.

Vergil Notebook: Available

Next Steps

To explore all our AP Latin resources — including product comparisons, sample content, pricing, product pages, and past webinars — scroll this page for information.

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Bolchazy-Carducci AP Textbooks and eBooks Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts and Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts Are Available

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Exam copies for AP® Pliny and Vergil textbooks, for the 2026 Latin exam, will be ebook format.

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Sample Pages

NB: The forthcoming Workbooks and Notebooks from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers will cover all the selections found in the student texts. Download the summary for Bolchazy-Carducci’s AP® Latin lineup and follow the “click here” link to view page layout samples for each textbook.

Featured Textbooks

Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts

Jacqueline M. Carlon

Student Text: xv + 175 pp., 5 illustrations & 4 maps (2025) 6″ x 9″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-885-5; Hardbound, ISBN 978-0-86516-883-1
Teacher’s Guide: (forthcoming, 2025) 6″ x 9″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-886-2

Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required letters by Pliny the Younger. Ten additional epistles round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “teacher choice” selections (3,541 words) from Latin prose that complement Pliny’s work, from inscriptions to the letters of Cicero to the history of Eutropius. Short excerpts from the eighteenth-century poetic work Rusticatio Mexicana further illuminate Pliny’s subject matter and themes.

Features

  • General introduction on Pliny’s life, works, and influence
  • Bibliography
  • Unadapted Latin passages from Pliny’s Letters: 1.6; 2.6; 6.4, 7, 16, 20; 7.5, 24, 27; 9.6; 10.5, 6, 7, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 90 with same-page vocabulary and notes
  • Introductory notes for each letter
  • Companion texts with introductory notes and running commentary:
    Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae 8.1–2, 4–5;
    Rafael Landívar, Rusticatio Mexicana 2.67–75, 114–27;
    Seneca, Epistulae Morales 79.1–4;
    Augustus, Res Gestae 19–21;
    Cicero, Ad Familiares 14.3;
    Inscriptions
  • Latin–English glossary

Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts

Barbara Weiden Boyd

Student Text: xxxviii + 219 pp., 7 illustrations & 1 map (2025) 6″ x 9″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-890-9; Hardbound, ISBN 978-0-86516-889-3
Teacher’s Guide: (forthcoming, 2025) 6″ x 9″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-891-6

Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required passages from Vergil’s Aeneid. An additional 15 lines from the Aeneid round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “teacher choice” selections (3,880 words) from Latin poetry that complement Vergil’s work, from the elegies of Catullus to the epic of Petrarch.

Features

  • General introduction on Vergil’s life, works, and influence
  • Timeline and bibliography
  • Aeneid unadapted Latin passages with same-page vocabulary and notes:
    Book 1.1–33, 88–107, 496–508;
    Book 2.40–56, 201–249;
    Book 4.74–89, 165–197, 305–361;
    Book 6.450–476, 788–800;
    Book 7.45–58, 783–817;
    Book 11.532–594;
    Book 12.791–796, 803–828, 919–952
  • Introductory notes for each section
  • Companion texts with introductory notes and running commentary:
    Catullus, Carmina 5, 7, 64.1–25, 64.43–266, 85, 101;
    Horace, Odes 1.11, 1.23, 1.37, 2.3;
    Ovid, Tristia 1.3, 3.7;
    Petrarch, Africa 5.64–84, 670–89;
    Sulpicia, Poems 1–6
  • Latin–English glossary

Workbooks & Notebooks

A Pliny Workbook: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts

Jacqueline M. Carlon and Gregory P. Stringer

Student Workbook: (2025) 8.5″ x 11″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-887-9
Teacher’s Manual: (forthcoming, 2025) 8.5″ x 11″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-888-6

A Vergil Workbook: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts

Katherine Bradley and Barbara Weiden Boyd

Student Workbook: (2025) 8.5″ x 11″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-892-3
Teacher’s Manual: (2025) 8.5″ x 11″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-893-0

Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts Notebook

Stephen Distinti

(forthcoming, 2025) 8.5″ x 11″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-894-7

Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts Notebook

Stephen Distinti

(forthcoming, 2025) 8.5″ x 11″ Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-895-4

Pliny and Vergil LUMINA

David Pellegrino and Ella Wallace

Online exercises, (2025), ProdCode: PVLUM

Bolchazy-Carducci AP Content Webinars

Newly Scheduled Webinars for AP Pliny

Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Examining the Lesser Known Pliny Letters for AP”
Jacqueline Carlon, University of Massachusetts Boston Emerita

Celebrated Pliny scholar and author, Dr. Carlon will discuss those Pliny letters required for the AP Latin Exam that are less familiar to most high school teachers. She will provide context for the letters and address grammar and syntax issues as well as special vocabulary-related concerns. The webinar will also provide time for questions from attendees.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Voicing Your Agency: Role Models and Their Verbs in Pliny’s Letters”
Jonathan Mannering, Loyola University Chicago

Written in the political environment left scorched by Domitian’s brutality, the Letters of Pliny the Younger can be read as serving a societal objective of rehabilitating interpersonal relations strained by an autocratic regime. Pliny uses the conventions of the epistolary genre to portray people from recent history and his own circle in an idealized way, rendering them exemplars. By focusing on the portrayals of key individuals, we can see how Pliny’s readership may be encouraged to emulate their best characteristics. Finite verbs are a particularly rich locus for discerning the types of agency that make certain Romans unique and worth remembering.

Webinar full descriptions and free registration.
Direct link to webinar free registration form.

Recorded AP Webinars

Pliny and Vergil Content including LUMINA — presented by Bridget Dean (07.23.25)

Link to the recorded webinar — passcode: k14E*7uA
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

Pliny and Vergil Content including LUMINA — presented by Bridget Dean (07.21.25)

Link to the recorded webinar — passcode: v65*m^mS
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

“Here Comes Pliny! An Introduction to the Man and His Works” — presented by Jacqueline Carlon

Link to the recorded webinar — passcode: qb&D8^9b
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

“The Voices of Women in the New AP Curriculum” — presented by Barbara Weiden Boyd

Notes and resource list from the webinar.
Link to the recorded webinar — passcode: mp!Kf0.K
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

“Authors Introduce Our New AP Latin Texts Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts and A Pliny Workbook: Letters and Suggested Companion Texts” — presented by Jacqueline Carlon & Gregory P. Stringer

Link to the recorded webinar — passcode: Jq$j?s0*
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

“Authors Introduce Our New AP Latin Texts Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts and A Vergil Workbook: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts” — presented by Barbara Weiden Boyd & Katherine Bradley

Link to the recorded webinar — passcode: 0K37$Ic!
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

“Introducing Pliny and Vergil LUMINA” — presented by David Pellegrino

Link to the recorded webinar — passcode: a5^gZ!8e
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

About the Authors

Jaqueline Carlon is a Pliny scholar of international stature, author of the forthcoming Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts and coauthor of A Pliny Workbook. She is Professor Emerita from the University of Massachusetts Boston, a recipient of the Society for Classical Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching, and an expert on the application of Second Language Acquisition Theory to the teaching of classical languages.

Barbara Weiden Boyd is the Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. A former chair of the AP Latin Test Development Committee, she specializes in Latin literature, especially Vergil and Ovid. For the new AP Latin Curriculum, she has authored Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts and coauthored the new A Vergil Workbook.

Gregory P. Stringer teaches Latin at Burlington High School in Burlington, MA, and has received multiple teaching awards. He is coauthor, with Jacqueline Carlon, of the forthcoming A Pliny Workbook and Teacher’s Manual designed for the new AP Latin curriculum.

Katherine Bradley is Head of School at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, MA, and teaches middle school Latin. She is coauthor, with Barbara Weiden Boyd, of the second edition of A Vergil Workbook and the forthcoming A Vergil Workbook for the new AP Latin curriculum.

David R. Pellegrino recently retired after a distinguished career as a Latin teacher and department chair in the Pittsford Central School District. He is the creator of Bolchazy-Carducci’s forthcoming LUMINA: Pliny and Vergil Selections online content designed for the new AP Latin curriculum.

Stephen Daly Distinti teaches Latin and Ancient Greek at Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx. He is the author of A Notebook for Caesar’s De Bello Gallico and A Notebook for Vergil’s Aeneid Books 1, 2, 4, and 6, as well as the forthcoming Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts Notebook and Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts Notebook.

Additional Resources

A biography of the Younger Pliny: Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger by Roy Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2020).

To keep current with AP Latin revisions and the new AP Latin curriculum, check the College Board website.

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