 | University of Virginia record March 15, 1915 |  |
CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY AND ANCIENT ART
1. Beginners' Latin.—This course is intended for teachers in high
schools and academies, for college preparation and for students of
Latin at large. It involves the Roman pronunciation; careful study
of accent and quantity; thorough drill in declensions and conjugations;
the fundamental principles of the syntax of the cases, tenses,
and moods, the accusative and infinitive, relative and conditional
sentences, uses of the subjunctive; and the main laws of indirect discourse.
These grammatical principles will be illustrated in systematic
exercises in translating easy detached sentences into Latin;
translation into English of easy Latin prose preparatory to Cæsar
will also be required.
Section I, daily, from 8:30 to 9:30; Section II, daily from 2:30 to
3:30. Professor Montgomery. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
2. Cæsar.—This course is offered for teachers in high schools and
academies, for college preparation, and for students of Latin at
large. It involves Cæsar's Gallic War I-IV, with collateral readings
in Viri Romae and Roman history. Constant practice in sight reading
and systematic study of high school Latin grammar, with accompanying
prose composition based on Cæsar, will be required. Grammar
and prose composition will be treated on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
and literature and life—Cæsar varied with Viri Romae and the
broad outlines of Roman Culture-history—on Mondays, Wednesdays,
Fridays.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Barss' Writing Latin
(Book One); Cæsar's Gallic War; Viri Romae; Myers' Ancient History,
and Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor McLemore. Cabell Hall,
Room 1.
3. Cicero.—This course is offered for teachers in high schools and
academies, for college preparation, and for students of Latin at
large. It involves Cicero's Four Orations against Catiline, The Manilian
Law, and Pro Archia, with collateral readings in Nepos' Lives,
and the private life of the Romans. Constant practice in sight reading
will be required, and high school grammar with accompanying
prose composition based on Cicero will be continued. Grammar
and prose composition will fall on Tuesdays and Thursdays; Cicero,
varied with Nepos and the private life of the Romans, on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Barss' Writing Latin
(Book Two); Cicero's Orations; Nepos' Lives; Johnston's Private
Life of the Romans.
Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. Professor Bishop. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
4. Vergil I-VI.—This course is offered for teachers in high schools
and academies, for college preparation, and for students of Latin
at large. It involves Vergil's Aeneid I-VI, with collateral readings
in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the principles of Latin quantitative versification
as applied to the dactylic hexameter, and the mythology of
the Greeks and Romans. Constant practice in sight reading will be
required, and high school grammar, with accompanying prose composition
based on Cæsar and Cicero, will be concluded. Grammar
and prose composition will come on Tuesdays and Thursdays: Vergil,
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Nutting's Supplementary
Latin Composition; Vergil's Aeneid; Ovid's Metamorphoses (Miller);
Fairbanks' Mythology of Greece and Rome.
Tuesday and Thursday, from 9:30 to 10:30. Professor Bishop.
Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 9:30 to 10:30. Professor
FitzHugh. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
5. Sallust.—This course is offered for teachers in colleges, for
college students, and for students of Latin at large. It is identical
with the first term of course A1 in the winter. It involves Sallust's
Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline, along with the study of
the history of Rome, college grammar, and prose composition. The
grammar and prose composition, comprising ten selections from
Mather-Wheeler's Latin Prose Writing, chapters 2, 8, etc., will be held
on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the literature and life on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Text-Books.—Gildersleeve-Lodge's Larger Latin Grammar; Mather-Wheeler's
Latin Prose Writing; Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy
of Catiline; Myers' Ancient History: Rome.
Tuesday and Thursday, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor Bishop.
Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor
FitzHugh. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
6. Livy.—This course is offered for teachers in colleges, for college
students, and for students of Latin at large. It is identical with
the first term of course B1 in the winter. It involves Livy, Books
I-II, and Tacitus' Agricola, along with the study of Roman mythology,
college grammar, and prose composition. The grammar and prose
composition, comprising ten selections from Nutting's Advanced Latin
Composition, exercises 2, 12, etc., will be given on Wednesdays and
Fridays, the literature and life on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
Text-Books.—Gildersleeve-Lodge's Larger Latin Grammar; Nutting's
Advanced Latin Composition; Livy, Books I-II; Tacitus' Agricola;
Fairbanks' Mythology of Greece and Rome.
Wednesday and Friday, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor McLemore.
Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor
FitzHugh. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
7. Tacitus.—This course is offered for teachers in colleges, for college
students, and for students of Latin at large. It is identical with
the first term of course C1 in the winter. It involves Tacitus' Annals
and Cicero's Letters, together with the study of the history of Latin
literature, historical grammar, and prose composition. The historical
grammar and the prose composition, comprising ten exercises
in Moore's Latin Prose Exercises, exercises 2, 9, etc., will be given on
Wednesdays and Fridays, the literature and life on Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays.
Text-Books.—Whitney's Language and the Study of Language;
Moore's Latin Prose Exercises; Tacitus' Annals; Cicero's Letters;
Duff's Literary History of Rome; Laing's Masterpieces of Latin Literature.
Wednesday and Friday, 9:30 to 10:30. Professor McLemore,
Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 9:30 to 10:30. Professor Fitz-Hugh,
Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Note.—Course 5 is the full equivalent of the first term of Latin
A1 in the University of Virginia catalogue; Course 6 is of the full
equivalent of the first term of Latin B1 or B2 in the University of
Virginia catalogue; Course 7 is the full equivalent of the first term
of Latin C1 or C2 in the University of Virginia catalogue.
University Credit.—Any student who fulfills the conditions set
forth on page 19 and who completes successfully Courses 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10 will receive credit for the corresponding courses in the University
of Virginia catalogue.
8. Beginners' Greek.—This course, the exact equivalent of the first
term of Greek A1 in the University of Virginia catalogue, involves
the study of the first thirty-five lessons of the Beginner's Greek Book.
There will be a thorough drill in the forms and principles of syntax
in these lessons, with translation of detached sentences, Greek into
English and English into Greek.
Text-Book.—Benner and Smyth, Beginner's Greek Book.
Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Professor McLemore. Cabell Hall,
Room 1.
9. New Testament Greek.—This is a free course, and will consist
of the reading and interpretation of selected books of the New Testament.
Three times a week, hours to be arranged. Professor Montgomery.
Cabell Hall, Room 1.
10. Culture-History and Ancient Art.—This course is free, and intended
for all who are interested in the origin and history of human
culture as illustrated in art. The purpose of the course is to portray
with the aid of lantern-slides the origin and history of ancient
culture with special reference to the typical monuments of art in
the palæolithic, neolithic, Egyptian and Oriental, Aegean, Greek and
Roman periods.
Text-Books.—Reinach's Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History
of Art throughout the Ages; Tarbell's History of Greek Art; Goodyear's
Roman Art.
Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Professor FitzHugh. Cabell Hall.
Room 1.
Note.—No fee will be charged for courses 8, 9, and 10, unless taken
for credit.
Certificate Credit.—Summer School Professional Certificate, Advanced
Grade—Latin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7; Summer School Professional
Certificate—College Grade—Latin 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
| University of Virginia record March 15, 1915 | |