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Virgil in School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

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It will be agreed, I think, that the reading of Virgil is an indispensable part of the school Latin course, especially for the Sixth Form. Assuming that Virgil will continue to be set for the School Certificate Examination, I suggest that the following ideas are feasible. At all events they are the result of experience gained in Fifth and Sixth Form work.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1939

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page 110 note 1 This year, for example, one boy handed in just over a hundred lines of translation in rhyming verse of the passage from the second book of the Aeneid describing the sack of Troy.

page 111 note 1 The course may be prefaced by a talk on Epic poetry. We might profitably study Conway's Architecture of the Epic, noting in particular the structure of Aeneid, book ii. Classes fortunate enough to be reading Greek will by this time be familiar with Homer, and the study of the Epic will then be doubly profitable.

page 113 note 1 The new regulations for the H.S.C, subsidiary Latin, in which the verse unseens this year were from Virgil, offered considerable scope for the reading of this author.

page 115 note 1 We use the Budé Classical translation (pub. by ‘Association Guillaume Budé’) and the pupils usually show keen interest in it.

page 116 note 1 The Classical Investigation in America, Part I, p. 35.Google Scholar