Virgil Aeneid XI: A Selection

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Aeneid Book XI lines 1224 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Aeneid Book XI lines 498521 532596 648689 and 725835 giving full Latin text commentary and vocabulary with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed text to be read in English for A Level.In Book XI Pallas the warrior son of Evander who was killed by Turnus is buried amid the mourning of his father and the Trojans. After a truce to collect and bury the dead on both sides fighting resumes during which the warrior-maiden Camilla battles bravely for the Latins before being killed. The events of the book take up just four days: Pallas'' funeral occupies the first; the second and third are devoted (briefly) to the truce and burials; the fourth taking up the second half of the book is concerned with Camilla''s aristeia in which she is likened to an Amazon.Resources are available on the Companion Website www.bloomsbury.com/ocr-editions-2019-2021