AP Latin Texts

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, and a rhetorical device appendix help teachers and students move quickly and confidently through the readings.

Check out our primary texts and enrichment resources. In addition, we have assembled a set of resources for the AP classroom.

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Guide to AP Latin

View the AP® Latin Course Information

Pliny

Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts

Jacqueline M. Carlon

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.

Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts 21-Page Sample
This sample shows the Table of Contents and the style of notes and vocabulary for both the Letters and Companion Texts.

Pliny Enrichment Resources

Vergil

Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts

Barbara Weiden Boyd

Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes all required passages from Vergil’s Aeneid and an additional 15 lines. Companion texts include “teacher choice” selections (3,880 words) from Latin poetry that complement Vergil’s work, from the elegies of Catullus to the epic of Petrarch.

Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts 19-Page Sample
This sample shows the Table of Contents and the style of notes and vocabulary for both the Vergil selections and Companion Texts.

Vergil Enrichment Resources

Lumina: Pliny and Vergil Selections

Lumina: Pliny and Vergil Selections

Exercises created by David Pellegrino and Ella Wallace

LUMINA: Pliny and Vergil online exercises prepare students for the challenges of the AP® Latin Exam. Hundreds of multiple choice questions cover ALL syllabus selections from Vergil’s Aeneid and the letters of Pliny the Younger. These automatically graded activities model exam format and provide students with detailed immediate feedback.

Additional multiple choice question sets promote close reading of companion texts, which meet the teacher’s choice component of the new AP® Latin syllabus. These optional readings are included alongside expert commentary in Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts and Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts. With LUMINA, students receive invaluable support as they read widely from a variety of unadapted Latin texts.

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Recorded AP Webinars

FALL 2025

Examining the Lesser Known Pliny Letters for AP

presented by Jacqueline Carlon, University of Massachusetts Boston Emerita (11.18.25)
Link to the recorded webinar passcode: ?FL#=Ss7
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

Voicing Your Agency: Role Models and their Verbs in Pliny’s Letters Letters

presented by Jonathan Mannering, Loyola University Chicago (12.09.25)
Link to the recorded webinar passcode: 8zC.wC0Z
The webinar recording is for individual use, not to be posted online for the public.

2024-2025

Pliny and Vergil Content including LUMINA

presented by Bridget Dean (07.21.25)
Link to the recorded webinar passcode: v65*m^mS
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“Here Comes Pliny! An Introduction to the Man and His Works”

presented by Jacqueline Carlon, University of Massachusetts Boston Emerita
Link to the recorded webinar and passcode: qb&D8^9b
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“The Voices of Women in the New AP Curriculum”

presented by Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College
Notes and Resource list
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“Authors Introduce… Pliny”

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“Authors Introduce… Vergil”

Link to the recorded webinar and passcode: 0K37$Ic!
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“Introducing Pliny and Vergil LUMINA”

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