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.
