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…
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.
Charon is so grumpy. And the most dramatic reveal of a golden branch ever.
druids and religion and human sacrifices, oh my!
Dido’s Death. (Special thanks to my wonderful wife who provided English voices for both Dido and Anna)
Episode VI: Return of the Caesar
The breakup conversation. (Special thanks to my wonderful wife who provided Dido’s English voice)
“That still only counts as one!”
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
Real Romans don’t look back at explosions.
So many things happen in this one: the cave, the Rumor, the Iarbas. All the things.
Quintus Cicero’s turn. Let’s see if he gets it right.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Definitely keep trusting Ambiorix. Nothing bad will come from that.
I hope you get the Iliad references.
The passive voice is used. High School English teachers are greatly troubled. A research paper is failed.
Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?
Epic Oratory Battles of History: Cotta vs. Sabinus. Ready? Begin!
That sudden uprising I planned was totally not my fault, I promise! And so sudden!
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)
Troop distribution and resource management time!
Thanks, exposition Ilioneus!
“Look to my coming at dawn. When all hope seems lost, look to the east.”
Enter Dido! (Let’s hide and see what happens)
“Everything is proceeding exactly as I have foreseen it.”
British weather is just the worst.
“Perhaps one day even high school will be pleasing to remember.”
There is in a long recess an 11 line ecphrasis...
He's an Eagle Bearer, not an Eagle Bear (But how cool would that be!)
Neptune: always cleaning up his sister’s messes.
Helvetians want to migrate? Gotta go fast!
Aeneas: So brave and not at all whiny in the face of death.
Game of Gallic Thrones Part 2: Migration is Coming
The Kingdom of the Winds (sounds like a video game level). Oh, and Juno is still mad.
Orgetorix = Helvetian Cersei Lannister
Invocation. Oh, and Juno is mad.
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