Does anyone know which AP Latin class, Literature or Vergil, is easier (trust me, I am not trying to get off easy here)? I am trying to decide which to take and I do not really know the difference. Thanks.
<p>I am in IB Latin, and we do BOTH. We do Vergil, and the teachers get a choice of a second topic. My teacher chose Love Poetry, so we also do Horace, Catullus and Ovid.</p>
<p>I am not trying to be sexist, but if you are a guy, go with Vergil, if you are a girl go with literature. It's also what interests you more.....epic or the other ones? I personally find Vergil an easy poet; however, most find him a lot more difficult than other. He uses syncope and chiasmus a lot. Also he jumbles the word order a lot too.</p>
<p>But I normally memorize the entire thing in English before the test.....so can't really tell which one would you find easier.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>P.S. The best idea is ask your teacher coz they know your strengths and weaknesses.</p>
<p>My Latin class read Catullus, Horace, and Vergil this year. I really liked them all. I liked the Catullus poetry the best because he was the most romantic, if you're not interested in romance then Catullus is probably not for you. Vergil tells a great story, and he's probably the easiest to read. It's really a matter of personal preference, if you're already fluent in Latin maybe you could check out a little bit of each poet over the summer, many public libraries have original Latin material. All of it is worth reading, so I'd say you can't go wrong, especially since you will get used to the style of any poet you spend a great deal of time reading. I'm a girl by the way.</p>
<p>I am far from fluent in Latin. I just wanted to know which, Literature or Vergil, is easier "grammar-wise" and for someone who is mediocre in the language.</p>
<p>At my school, Latin IV AP is Virgil and Latin V AP is Lit. So...maybe Virgil?</p>
<p>I've taken both APs, and I think its more about what you enjoy.</p>
<p>We did Horace and Catullus for the AP Latin Lit. Catullus is one of my favorite writers ever, and Horace is the most rewarding. Horace is famous for putting the noun as the first word of the first line of the stanza and the adjective modifying it as the last word in the last line of the stanza, but when you do piece Horace's Odes together, they're awesome.</p>
<p>AP Vergil is very different. First off, it's one book, as opposed to a bunch of seperate poems, so it can be much easier to confuse passages. I think the stuff from Books 2, 10, and 12 that are on the AP curriculum is pretty awesome stuff. But it's much more of a narrative, and I found in the end it was easier to remember the poems, they were just more catchy. Also, for the Vergil curriculum, they require you to know the entire Aeneid in english at least.</p>
<p>Btw Annandale, I am a guy, and i believe the word you were looking for is synchesis, not syncope.</p>
<p>Anticatalyst, my school does Lit before Vergil.</p>
<p>At my school, we do Lit before Vergil.</p>
<p>I would probably suggest doing Lit first.</p>
<p>I took both exams this year. </p>
<p>I enjoyed Vergil far more than Lit, and I really think it has nothing to do with gender. The Vergil syllabus is more cohesive and I found it far more fun to read than the Lit stuff. It really comes down to what authors you enjoy. The good part about Vergil is that the vocabulary is extremely consistent, whereas the vocabulary with Ovid is much more varied. </p>
<p>If I had to pick one, I'd go with Vergil 100%.</p>