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Laocoön crushed by two serpents at the altar while four Trojans drag the wooden horse to the gate

AP® Latin · Aeneid 2.40–56, 201–249

Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts

Timeō Danaōs

Laocoön runs down from the citadel to warn the Trojans against the wooden horse and hurls his spear into its side. Then two serpents come over the sea from Tenedos, and the Trojans drag the horse into Troy.

An AP® Latin escape room on Vergil's Aeneid, Laocoön and the horse, 2.40–56 and 2.201–249, using the passage's own vocabulary: a crossword, anagrams, a Latin cipher, the passive voice, a picture count, an odd-one-out story and a final rebus.

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The taster runs in the browser, with nothing to install. Members share a private class link that opens all seven locks.

What's inside

  • 7 self-grading locks, all in Latin
  • Built on Vergil, Aeneid 2.40–56, 201–249, a required AP® Latin reading
  • Grammar: the passive voice
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson

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