 | University of Virginia record February, 1910 |  |
SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Fitz-Hugh.
Mr. McLemore.
Mr. Kerr.
Mr. Bishop.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The four
units prescribed on page 69 for admission to Latin 1A.
Preparation.—The Latin work of the University finds its logical
place in the public school system as the continuation of the Latin
work of the High School. It presupposes accordingly four years of
competent instruction in Latin, with daily recitations of at least
forty minutes each, and it implies the use of the Roman pronunciation,
the habitual observance of quantity and accent, regular drill in grammar
and prose composition through all preparatory years, elementary
reading (Viri Romæ), Nepos (the Roman Lives), Cæsar's Gallic War,
Cicero's easier Orations, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Vergil's Æneid. If
the preparation of the student justifies it, he will be admitted to advanced
standing, with due credit for all work done elsewhere by him.
Attention is specially invited to the importance of beginning
Greek and at least one Romanic language for all who wish to reap
the full cultural benefit of the University courses in Latin. The
Greek illumines incomparably all parts of Latin study, which bears
in turn a like relation to the Romanic.
General Statement.—The first five courses in Latin are devoted
to the broad cultural study of the language, literature, and life of
the Romans. The culture we enjoy today has its source in the culture
of the Greeks and Romans. Greece is the fountain head of
civilization, and Rome its universalizer and transmitter to the modern
world: thus Greek culture is the ultimate, Roman the immediate
source of all modern culture. In the course of the instruction, therefore,
the effort is made to exhibit as far as possible the relation of
Roman civilization to the Greek, on the one hand, and to the Romanic
and modern, on the other, and thus to emphasize the unity and continuity
of all human culture. Hence the importance of the study
of Greek and of at least one Romanic language is specially commended
to the student of Latin.
The work is organized in all years as follows:
I. In Language: Systematic study of Latin grammar, with
oral and written exercises in prose composition. One
hour a week.II. In Literature: Reading of authors in culture-historical
series. Two hours a week.III. In Life: Systematic study of Roman culture-history in
English, hand in hand with the study of the Latin authors.
Students may enter any of the courses in Latin at the beginning
of any term of the session, and will receive full credit for the course
on completing subsequently the work of the remaining term or terms
of the course in question.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1A: The four units prescribed on page 69 for admission to
the School of Latin, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with
oral and written exercises (Moulton-Collar, Mather-Wheeler).
II. In Literature: Historical, Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy
of Catiline—epic, Vergil's Æneid (Books VII-XII), and Ovid's
Metamorphoses (Books XIII-XIV), with study of the hexameter—philosophic,
Cicero's Friendship and Old Age, and his Tusculan Disputations
and Dream of Scipio.
III. In Life: The geography, history, public, and private life
of the Romans (Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Abbott's Short History of
Rome, Greenidge's Roman Public Life, Johnston's Private Life of the
Romans).
Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1-2, Section II, Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore,
Mr. Kerr, Mr. Bishop.
Course 2B: Course 1A or its equivalent, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with
oral and written exercises (Nutting, Gildersleeve-Lodge, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and biographic, Livy's Early History
of Rome (Books I-II) and Tacitus' Agricola—lyric, idyllic, and
didactic, Catullus' Odes and Vergil's Bucolics and Georgics, with study of
the lyric meters—philosophic, Cicero's De Officiis and Seneca's Moral
Essays.
III. In Life: The religion and mythology of the Romans (Carter's
Religion of Numa, Fairbank's Mythology of Greece and Rome).
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitzhugh,
Mr. McLemore, Mr. Kerr.
Course 3B: Course 1A or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Either Course
2B or Course 3B may be offered as the elective from Group I, and
the other may be offered as an elective at large.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with
oral and written exercises (Nutting, Gildersleeve-Lodge, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and descriptive, Livy's Hannibalic
War (Books XXI-XXII) and Tacitus' Germania—lyric and elegiac,
Horace's Odes and The Roman Elegiac Poets, with study of the meters
of lyric and elegiac verse—critical and didactic, Cicero's De Claris
Oratoribus and Quintilian's Training of the Orator.
III. In Life: The art of the Romans (Tarbell's History of Greek
Art, Goodyear's Roman Art).
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor
Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore, Mr. Kerr.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 4C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either,
prerequisite.
I. In Language: History of the Cases and Moods (Peters), with
oral and written exercises (Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Annals and
Cicero's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Captivi, Terence's
Andria, and Horace's Satires and Epistles, with study of the meters of
the drama—critical, Cicero's De Oratore and Tacitus' Dialogue on the
Orators.
III. In Life: The literary life of the Romans (Mackail's Latin
Literature and Laing's Masterpieces of Latin Literature).
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.
Course 5C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either, prerequisite.—Either
Course 4C or Course 5C may be offered as one of
the three distinct subjects required for the M. A. degree, and the
other may be offered as the fourth, or elective at large.
I. In Language: History of the Latin Language (Bennett,
Grandgent), with oral and written exercises (Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Histories
and Pliny's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Mostellaria, Terence's
Phormio, and Juvenal's Satires, with study of the meters of the
drama—philosophic, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Cicero's De Natura
Deorum.
III. In Life: The philosophic life of the Romans (Mayor's His-
Epicurean).
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 6D: Course 4C or Course 5C or the equivalent of either,
prerequisite.—This course extends through three years and is intended
for those who desire to specialize for one, two, or three years in classical
philology. It contemplates especially the needs of those who
choose Latin as their major elective for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy. Roman civilization is the vital link between the Hellenic
and the Romanic, and hence Latin philology, which is the science of
Roman civilization, has vital points of contact with Greek philology
on the one hand and with Romanic on the other. If the candidate's
major elective be Latin, a respectable familiarity with Greek is required,
since the language, literature, and life of the Romans are
saturated with Greek influence. If the candidate's major elective be
Romanic, the technical Greek requirement is waived as far as practically
possible, and he is guided into the history of the Roman popular
vernacular, the common source of the Romanic tongues, and into an
acquaintance with the authors illustrating the Vulgar Latin in literature.
Plan of Work.—It is the aim of this course, as far as the teaching
force and the resources of the School permit, to prepare the candidate
to investigate independently the sources of our knowledge of the language,
monuments (literary and objective) and life of the Romans.
The following is therefore an outline of the course:
I. In Language: Elements of comparative grammar (Giles, supplemented
by Hirt and Sommer on Sounds and Inflections and by
Brugmann and Schmalz on Syntax)—introduction to Latin historical
grammar (Lindsay, supplemented by Landgraf)—systematic grammar
(Kühner) with stylistic exercises, oral and written, in conjunction
with Cicero's De Oratore—reading of epigraphic and literary
monuments illustrating the history of the Latin Language.
II. In the Literary and Objective Monuments of the Romans:
Reading of authors in groups systematically planned to illustrate the
literary life of the Romans—history and interpretation of texts—
elements of palæography (Johnson, supplemented by Thompson),
epigraphy (Lindsay, supplemented by Egbert and Cagnat), numismatics
(Gnecchi, supplemented by Hill), topography and remains
(Platner, Peterson, Huelson, Mau, Strack, Furtwængler).
III. In Roman Life: Constructive study of Roman culture-history—reading
of authors illustrating the development of Roman
civilization—study of modern authorities in Roman culture-history
(Philippson, Nissen, Mommsen, Marquardt-Mommsen, Preller-Jordon,
Springer-Michaelis and Winter, Schanz, Windelband).
Friday, Saturday, 12-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh.
Aids.—For the sake of first-hand access to important modern
authorities in Latin philology, the candidate is urged to acquire a good
reading knowledge of German, French, and Italian. Such a mastery
of German and French is imperative.
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