Library

RESOURCE GUIDES

Upper School

Latin

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Virgil 

LATIN

 7th & 8th Grade


Visit the library to use the Reference books you will find there -- they are often the fastest path to accurate information.

Recommended Online Subscription Databases:

Grolier
An excellent online encyclopedia and a great place to start.
Biography Resource Center Includes biographies, pictures, and links to relevant web sites.

(At home? Get your public library card and click here.)

Summaries of the Aeneid by Virgil:

From Bucknell University
http://classics.uc.edu/~johnson/epic/aeneidsum.html

SparkNotes
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/aeneid/ 

Recommended Web Sites:

Virgil.org
Check out the links to two excellent maps and description of the Underworld.
http://virgil.org/maps/

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
(from Salve Regina University)
http://www.roman-emperors.org/

Encyclopedia Mythica
(maintained by named authors and editor)
http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/roman/

The Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Roman Materials
(from Tufts University)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html

Interactive Map of the ancient city of Rome
(from the Illustrated History of the Roman Empire)
http://www.roman-empire.net/maps/map-rome.html

The Seven Hills of Rome
(privately maintained by Caroline Bigelow - this site has dubious authority but the map of the Seven Hills is accurate.)
http://www.musesrealm.net/rome/sevenhills.html


January 2007