Lectiones Memorabiles: Volume I: Selections from Catullus, Cicero, Livy, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, and Vergil

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This reader contains the prescribed passages for the Vergil, Love Poetry, and Women portions of the IB® Latin Syllabus with examinations in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Same- and facing-page notes provide historical background, cultural context, and grammatical assistance. Introductions to each selection orient students to significant themes and events. The reader includes introductions to each author, appendices on meter and on literary terms, and a historical timeline. The prescribed passages for History and Good Living can be found in Lectiones Memorabiles: Volume II.

Special Features

• Introductions to Vergil, Love Poetry, and Women
• Unadapted Latin passages with same- and facing-page notes:Vergil:
  SL and HL
  • • Vergil,

  Aeneid

  • 1.1–49, 223–493

  HL Only

  • • Vergil,

  Georgics

  • 4.315–529

  Love Poetry:
  SL and HL

  • • Catullus,

  Carmina

  • 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 45, 50, 65, 72, 85, 86, 92, 107, 109 • Propertius,

  Elegies

  • 1.1, 2.12, 2.17, 2.19, 3.23

  HL Only

  • • Catullus,

  Carmina

  • 76 • Tibullus,

  Elegies

  • 1.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18

  Women:
  SL and HL

  • • Ovid,

  Heroides

  • 1 • Livy,

  Ab Urbe Condita

  • 2.13 • Cicero,

  Pro Caelio

  • 35–40 • Vergil,

  Aeneid

  • 11.648–724

  HL Only

  • • Horace,

  Carmina

  • 1.37 • Propertius,

  Elegies

  • 3.11 • Catullus,

  Carmina

  64.48–158
• Introductions for each author and for each selection
• Metrical appendix
• Appendix of rhetorical devices and figures of speech
• Historical timeline
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