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Primarily for Graduates.

Courses 5D and 6D: Course 4C prerequisite.—Designed for those
who wish to devote themselves to classical scholarship, and especially
for those who choose Greek as their major elective for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy. For admission to these courses, proficiency
in Courses 2A and 3B, or equivalent preparation is required. The
course 4C may be taken as the first year Ph. D. course. At present
the additional work consists of four special courses, each comprising
three hours per week during a half session. The lectures will be
employed chiefly in directing the private study of the students.

The four special courses offered at present are as follows:

I. A course of selected readings extending over the whole field
of Greek literature in the order of historical development. This
course is intended as a general survey.

II. A course in Attic Prose, especially the orators, directed
partly to questions of grammar, and partly to the artistic form and
style.

III. A study of the Attic drama, including the special study in
class of the Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles and the Frogs of Aristophanes.

IV. A study of the Greek poets, with special reference to music,
rhythm, meter, and structure. The ancient doctrine of meter and
rhythm will be carefully examined, and portions of the Lyric poets,
including Pindar, read in class.

For all the classes of this School private reading is prescribed, and

the examinations will be partly upon this and the work done in class,
and partly upon passages selected from the Greek authors at will.

Text-Books.—Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Moods and Tenses; Veitch's
Verbs; Liddell and Scott's Lexicon (intermediate, and in Course 4C and above,
unabridged edition); Morey's History of Greece; Wright's Greek Literature. Any
editions of Greek authors may be used, except when particular ones are specially
prescribed; but students should always have at hand Teubner's texts for reference,
and for use on examinations. At present Rhythm and Meters and some other subjects
are taught wholly or partly by lecture.