(the main book of Pars II of the series, *) introduces some of the most celebrated authors of Roman antiquity through the lens of Roman literature and mythology. A vivid description of the city's monuments precedes a prose retelling of the first four books of Virgil’s Aeneid, with many of the most famous passages in their original verse form. The selection from Virgil is followed by Book One of Livy's engaging mythical history of Rome's foundation. The prose selections are judiciously chosen and, in the first few chapters, gently adapted to provide students with a text that is authentically Latin and yet not difficult. The unadapted selections, which make up the majority of the text, are taken from Aulus Gellius, Ovid, Nepos, Sallust, and Horace. These annotated selections make useful both as the next step after and as a survey of Latin literature in its own right. The main books in the (Pars I) and (Pars II) are entirely in Latin. Additional student guides for the series are also available from Hackett Publishing Company / Focus, including Hans H. Ørberg's a student guide in English for , and Jeanne Marie Neumann's offers a running commentary, in English, of the Latin grammar covered in and includes the complete text of the Ørberg ancillaries and It also serves as a substitute for Ørberg's , on which it is based.