For Undergraduates.
Greek A1: For beginners. This course is designed to meet the
needs of students who wish to gain in a short time a working knowledge
of Greek, either as an aid to the study of other subjects (e. g.,
languages, history, theology), or with a view to entering upon a
more extended study of Greek. It is to be especially noted that this
course is by no means intended to supplant the work of the secondary
schools, but to compensate the student, so far as may be, for his
loss in having missed the much more normal and satisfactory training
which the schools can give. The course consists of a rapid and
thorough drill in the forms and fundamental principles of the language,
and of practice in translation, which receives an increasingly
large proportion of emphasis as the session advances. By the end
of the course the student should have acquired considerable facility
in the reading of simple narrative prose.
Text-Books.—Benner and Smyth, Beginners' Greek Book; Goodwin and White,
Xenophon's Anabasis.
(No credit value for any degree. Admits to Greek A2 only.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Cabell Hall. Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Greek A2: Course A1 or its equivalent, prerequisite. Selections
from Xenophon's Memorabilia; Plato's Apology and Crito; selected
orations of Lysias; Homer's Iliad i—iii. Grammar and prose composition.
Collateral reading: Greek history and private and public life.
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Webb.
Greek B1: Course A2 or its equivalent, prerequisite. Portions of
Herodotus vii and viii; selections from the lyric poets, including
Sappho, Alcaeus, Simonides, Anacreon, Archilochus, and others;
Euripides' Medea; Aristophanes' Clouds. Grammar and prose composition.
Collateral reading: mythology and the history of Greek
literature.
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Webb.
Greek B2: Course B1 or its equivalent, prerequisite. Demosthenes'
On the Crown, with a comparative study of Aeschines' Against
Ctesiphon; Menander's Epitrepontes; Aristophanes' Birds; Sophocles'
Antigone. Prose composition. Collateral reading: Archæology and
the history of Greek art.
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Webb.
