<p>Hi,</p>
<p>So there are absolutely NO books out there to prepare one for the AP Latin Lit test.</p>
<p>My coverage of the topics has been kind of random because my teacher isn't quite the best or most efficient. We've basically covered the Metamorphoses (but not the Amores) of Ovid and Catullus up to 24.</p>
<p>Does anyone know of any materials that can help me with this exam--Ovid-specific or just the Catullus part?</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>what textbooks are you using? for the ovid, the lafleur ovid reader is helpful. i think that's the standard textbook though, so you're probably okay. the catullus counterpart isn't as great, but you know, it's still something.</p>
<p>but professional advice aside, the following is my best friend
Main</a> Page - Wikisource</p>
<p>go to the english section and search them up. pretty much the entire ap latin literature syllabus is in there. :) i'm not encouraging slacking or coasting at all, but if you need to translate on your own, it's a good source to check up against.</p>
<p>hope it helps! best wishes for your ap latin lit. (i was going to take it this may too- but i gave up on it, so power to ya.)</p>
<p>ps the lone ranger .... reference to aragorn?!</p>
<p>One needs to know Latin in order to do well on this exam.
That's all the preparation you really need.</p>
<p>REA came out with a good Latin Lit/Vergil book just this year- I got mine on Amazon, and it really helps, even though it does double duty for both AP Latin exams (I'm in Vergil). It has very good grammar review stuff.</p>
<p>ps skimmedmilk- are you a LOTR geek too? :D </p>
<p>and kwu, that's not very helpful. Have you ever taken Latin? There's just so much stuff, it would take waaaaaay too much time to memorize everything. Having some sort of guide really helps you focus on the things that are most likely to be tested by the CB.</p>
<p>I know it's not helpful, but it's what my Latin teacher tells me, haha.
Yes, I have had the pleasure of learning Latin for four years.
It's not a lot of stuff.</p>
<p>Not a lot of stuff? I'm in Virgil and there is more stuff then I'd ever be able to memorize. Declensions, conjugations, tenses, endings, vocab., pronouns, indefinites, subjunctives...the list goes on and on.</p>
<p>theloneranger:</p>
<p>You're nowhere near where you need to be for the AP test. You have to read more of the Amores, and you have to read the right poems for Catullus. Go to College</a> Search - SAT Registration - College Admissions - Scholarships and search for AP Latin Literature. You'll see that there's a syllabus that your teacher is supposed to go by. There are certain poems that you're supposed to have read. I'm kind of concerned for you, because you seem to be unaware of it.</p>
<p>And yes, AP Latin is hard work. This is my fourth year of Latin. Memorizing words takes a long time, and you have to have gone over the works enough so that you can remember, for example, that "blanda" is ablative and goes with "voce" in Catullus 64 or that quoque is here not "also" but "quo" + "que." It's not like you can just pick up real Catullus and just start reading it and understand it like that. And real Latin, like reading the actual text of Pro Archia and In Catilinam (go Cicero!) is very difficult. In fact, Cicero made his works hard to understand on purpose. </p>
<p>But you should definitely have the Latin grammar down before you go on to AP.</p>