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Dido's shade turning away from Aeneas and the Sibyl, while Anchises points out a line of souls by a moonlit river

AP® Latin · Aeneid 6.450–476, 788–800, 847–853

Shades and Destiny

Umbrae et Fāta

In the Fields of Mourning, Dido's shade turns away from Aeneas without a word. In Elysium, Anchises shows his son the Romans still to be born, Augustus among them, and tells the Roman what his arts will be.

An AP® Latin escape room on Vergil's Aeneid, Dido's shade, Augustus and the Roman mission, 6.450–476, 6.788–800 and 6.847–853, using the passage's own vocabulary: a crossword, anagrams, a Latin cipher, the future tense, 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 6.450–476, 788–800, 847–853, a required AP® Latin reading
  • Grammar: the future tense
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson

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