Virgil Aeneid XI: A Selection

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This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Aeneid Book XI, lines 1224, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Aeneid Book XI, lines 498521, 532596, 648689, and 725835, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed text to be read in English for A Level. In Book XI Pallas, the warrior son of Evander who was killed by Turnus, is buried, amid the mourning of his father and the Trojans. After a truce to collect and bury the dead on both sides, fighting resumes, during which the warrior-maiden Camilla battles bravely for the Latins before being killed. The events of the book take up just four days: Pallas funeral occupies the first; the second and third are devoted (briefly) to the truce and burials; the fourth, taking up the second half of the book, is concerned with Camillas aristeia, in which she is likened to an Amazon. Resources are available on the Companion Website www.bloomsbury.com/ocr-editions-2019-2021

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Ashley Carter was Head of Classics at Hitchin Girls School, UK, and is an experienced chief examiner. He is the author of The Cambridge Latin Anthology as well as Latin Language Tests for Levels 1 and 2 and GCSE (Bloomsbury, 2011), Latin Unseens for A Level (Bloomsbury, 2005) and Latin Momentum Tests for GCSE (Bloomsbury, 2003).