Vergil and Pliny

Curriculum Overview

Vergil and Pliny: An AP® Latin Curriculum is a high school Latin curriculum designed to prepare students for the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP®) Latin Exam. The content of the course aligns with the recent revisions made to the AP® Latin curriculum (effective as of the 2025-2026 academic year), which include updates to the selections from Vergil's Aeneid and replacing Caesar with Pliny the Younger.

Our curriculum includes a rich and thorough commentary, additional material on topics in Roman history and culture relevant to the course texts, 

Born as a self-paced online course, this curriculum encompasses an interactive digital course and a textbook with an accompanying consumable student workbook. Both the digital and print editions are designed to be used independently or concurrently depending on your Latin classroom's unique pedagogical needs and preferences.

The curriculum is ideal for independent learners who do not have access to the AP® curriculum in a traditional classroom setting and are pursuing self-directed study. 

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Vergil & Pliny Textbook

Vergil & Pliny Workbook

Taking the AP® Latin Exam

Students who wish to take the AP® Latin Exam after completing Vergil and Pliny must coordinate with a local school willing to act as their testing site. In addition to the exam, AP® Latin requires two checkpoint tasks (worth 2% of the final exam score) that must be scored and submitted through the AP® Digital Portfolio. 

Students can use the College Board's AP® Course Ledger to find an approved testing site in their area. Any AP®-approved testing site will do, but we recommend that, where possible, students reach out to schools that offer the AP® Latin course (add "Latin" to the ledger's subject search field) to simplify the exam order and checkpoint task grading process.

To complete the required checkpoint tasks, an AP® Course Audit–approved teacher from the student's testing site must review the student’s work and enter scores on the AP® Digital Portfolio. Ideally this would be a Latin teacher, but an AP®-approved teacher in different subject may grade the checkpoint tasks if the testing site does not have a Latin teacher (the checkpoint tasks are assessed by completion following a standardized rubric).  

Please be advised that the deadline to order the 2026 AP® Latin exam is November 14th, 2025. Students who plan on taking the exam in the spring must be included in a school's AP® exam order by this date.

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