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, a rhetorical device appendix, and more help teachers and students move quickly and with confidence through the readings.
Check out our primary texts and enrichment resources. In addition, we have assembled a set of resources for the AP classroom.
Guide to AP Latin
View the AP® Latin Course Information
Pliny

Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts
Jacqueline M. CarlonDesigned 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 Enrichment Resources
Vergil

Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts
By Barbara Weiden BoydDesigned 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.
Vergil Enrichment Resources
Lumina: Pliny and Vergil Selections

Lumina: Pliny and Vergil Selections
Exercises created by David Pellegrino and Ella WallaceLUMINA: Pliny and Vergil online exercises prepare students for the challenges of the AP® Latin Exam. Hundreds of multiple choice question 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.