Close reading for Latin and Ancient Greek. Every word carries its dictionary form, its parsing, and what it is doing in this line.
The whole of Book 1: where to find a girl in Augustan Rome, the rape of the Sabines, Ariadne and Bacchus, and how to win her over.
The scandalous didactic poem instructing women in the arts of love.
Cicero's passionate first oration against the conspirator Catiline, delivered to the Senate.
The whole of Book 1: Juno's storm, the landing in Libya, Jupiter's prophecy of Rome, and Aeneas' welcome at Dido's Carthage.
The fall of Troy, told by Aeneas at Dido's banquet: the Wooden Horse, Laocoön, Priam's death, and the flight with Anchises.
Dido's tragedy: her confession to Anna, the hunt and the cave, Mercury's summons, Aeneas' departure, and the queen's curse and death.
The invocation of the Muse, then the council of the gods: Zeus on Aegisthus, and Athena's plea for Odysseus, held captive by Calypso.
The dedication to Cornelius Nepos, Lesbia's sparrow and its death, 'Let us live, my Lesbia', and Catullus telling himself to stand firm.