Primarily for Undergraduates.
Course 1A: The Higher Entrance Examination in Latin prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Hale-Buck), with oral and
written exercises (Moulton-Collar, Mather-Wheeler).
II. In Literature: Historical, Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy
of Catiline—epic, Vergil's Aeneid (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 and private life of the Romans
(Tozer's Classical Geography and Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Botsford's
Story of Rome, Johnston's Private Life of the Romans).
Course 2B: 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 (Gildersleeve-Lodge, Nutting, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and biographic, Livy's Early History
of Rome (Books I-II), and Tacitus' Agricola—lyric and didactic, Catullus'
Odes and Vergil's Georgics, with study of the meters of lyric and didactic
verse—philosophic, Cicero's De Officiis and Seneca's Moral Essays.
III. In Life: The public life, religion, and mythology of the Romans
(Gow's Companion to School Classics, Fairbank's Mythology of Greece
and Rome.)
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 (Gildersleeve-Lodge, Nutting, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and descriptive, Livy's Hannibalic
War, and Tacitus' Germania—lyric and idyllic, Horace's Odes, and Vergil's
Bucolics, with study of the meters of lyric and idyllic verse—critical and
didactic, Cicero's De Claris Oratoribus and Quintilian's Training of the
Orator.
III. In Life: The artistic life of the Romans (Tarbell's History of
Greek Art, Goodyear's Roman Art).
