SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Webb.
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The general
entrance requirements.
General Statement. The primary object of the courses open to
undergraduates in the School of Greek is to enable the student to
read and appreciate the masterpieces of Greek Literature. To that
end at least two entire hours of the three weekly meetings of each
course are devoted to the translation and interpretation of assigned
portions of text, and to the treatment of those broader questions
which must claim the attention of every intelligent student of literature.
The study of grammar will not be treated as an end in itself, but
the ability of the student to construe his authors satisfactorily will
be constantly tested. To insure further a practical familiarity with
grammatical principles, and to cultivate a feeling for idiom and style,
exercises in prose composition will form an important part of the
work of the undergraduate courses.
Finally, since it is desirable that the broader aspects of ancient
life be covered by the student in a more comprehensive way than
can be done in the regular lectures and recitations, collateral reading
in English on various subjects will be assigned for outside work,
and questions based upon this reading will be included in each examination.
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 make good, so far as may be, the loss of those
students who have 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.
Text-Books.—Benner and Smyth, Beginners' Greek Book; Goodwin and White,
Xenophon's Anabasis; Goodwin, Greek Grammar.
(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. Selected orations
of Lysias; Plato's Apology and Crito; Homer's Odyssey v—viii.
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. Herodotus,
Book vii; selections from the lyric poets; Euripides' Medea; Aristophanes'
Clouds. 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 Æschines' 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.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Greek C1: Course B1 and B2 prerequisite. Thucydides, Book iii;
selections from Theocritus; Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus; Aeschylus'
Prometheus; Aristophanes' Frogs. Collateral reading: Greek Religion
and Philosophy. Hours by appointment. Cabell Hall. Professor
Webb.
Primarily for Graduates.
Greek D1: This course is intended for those who wish to prosecute
the study of Greek beyond Course C1, especially for those seeking
the degree of Ph. D. The content of the course will vary according
to the amount and the nature of the work already done by the
student, and the object he has in view. In general, the course will
consist of the rapid reading of Greek authors, and of an intensive
study of some particular field of Classical Philology. Hours by appointment.
Professor Webb.
