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This site is designed to teach students and scholars of antiquity about scansion, the structures behind ancient poetry. But it's not enough to just teach how scansion works. You need practice, practice, and more practice. And that's what this site aims to do: give its users the ability to try line after line in order to spend the needed time required for attaining mastery at this skill.
But beyond that, this site offers adaptive lines that grow in difficulty as your skill grows, and instant feedback so you'll know whether you've made a mistake or not. There are also ample statistics, charts, badges, and many more features so you can track your progress and feel good about yourself along the way.
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(70 - 19 BCE) Commonly known as Rome's greatest poet, Vergil wrote three works, the Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid, Rome's national epic, all in hexameter.
(43 BCE - 17/18 CE) Publius Ovidius Naso is most famous for his mythological epic, the Metamorphoses. "My mind compels me to speak of forms changed into new bodies."
(99 - 55 BCE) A poet and philosopher, Lucretius wrote De Rerum Natura in order to transmit the ideas of Epicurean philosophy to the Roman elite.
(45 - 96 CE) One of the great poets from the Silver Age, Statius was a favorite of Domitian, whose own brutal regime may have influenced the grotesque carnage in Statius' epic, the Thebaid.
The poetry part of the AP syllabus consists of 844 lines from Vergil's Aeneid, Books 1, 2, 4, and 6.
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