Word: vergil
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...It’s not that they’ve taken those subjects out of the AP lineup,” DiFabio said. “But Italian now has no representation in the AP program.” (The College Board will maintain French language, Latin Vergil, and Computer Science A exams.) The decision to cut the AP Italian program has “many serious consequences,” according to Margaret Cuomo, founder and president of the Italian Language Foundation, which led the recent efforts to raise funds to continue the AP Italian exam. Aside from...
...unmistakable influence on subsequent traditions. Readings of Shakespeare or Corneille or even Beckett are deeper and more complex with an understanding of the rules of Greek drama that those playwrights emulated—or conspicuously shunned. In Dante or Dryden or Tennyson, one can sense the palpable presence of Vergil. To disembody literature from the larger tradition of which the authors were knowingly partaking would appear an artificial and arbitrary extraction.Most importantly, perhaps, we owe our understanding of philosophy to the Greeks who developed it and the Latins who preserved it for us somewhat intact. The metaphysics and natural science...
...that it will cancel four AP tests after the 2008-2009 school year: AP Latin Literature, AP French Literature, AP Computer Science AB, and AP Italian. For three of these courses, the College Board offers another AP exam in the same subject area. AP French Language and AP Latin: Vergil will continue to be offered after these changes. The College Board cannot continue to offer two exams in each of these areas while simultaneously working toward its new goal of increasing support for teachers in these subjects, Jennifer L. Topiel, the executive director of communications, wrote in an e-mail...
...taken it upon himself to dramatize texts’ suggestions about the postmodern subject who has absorbed high and low—Vergil, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, comic books, and Fascist propaganda—all in one breath. The question is how much we can care about a protagonist who, in the course of 450 pages, does little but indulge in his ruminations...
...Roman poet Vergil in The Aeneid called rumor "a huge and terrible monster," and Wall Streeters last week would have agreed. The intense speculation about Pennzoil was part of the high-stakes legal battle the company has been waging with Texaco. In November a Houston jury ordered Texaco to pay Pennzoil $10.53 billion in damages for snatching Getty Oil away in a 1984 takeover battle. After a Houston judge upheld the jury's decision, Pennzoil and Texaco negotiators tried to forge an out-of-court settlement...