SCHOOL OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES
I. Greek
Greek A1: For beginners: Elementary grammar, composition and selected
readings. Five hours a week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for those
who have offered less than 2 units of Greek for entrance.)
Acting Assistant Professor Young.
Greek A2: Greek A1, or Greek A and B of the entrance requirements, prerequisite.—Lysias
selections; Plato, Apology; Euripides, Alcestis. (B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Webb.
Greek B1: Greek A2 prerequisite.—Greek Epic and Drama: Homer,
Euripides, Aristophanes, selections. (B.A. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Webb.
Greek B2: Greek A2 prerequisite.—Greek prose: Herodotus, Thucydides,
Demosthenes, selections. (B.A. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Webb.
Greek C1: Greek B1 and B2 prerequisite.—Aristophanes.
Professor Webb.
Further advanced work will be arranged to meet the needs of students.
II. Latin
Latin A1: Latin A, B, C, and D of the entrance requirements prerequisite.—
I. In Language: General grammar, with oral and written exercises. II. In
Literature: Sallust, Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline; Virgil, Æneid,
Books VII-XII, and selections from Ovid, Metamorphoses and Tristia; Cicero,
Old Age and Friendship. III. In Life: The public and private life of the
Romans. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Two sections.
Professor Montgomery and Mr. Thompson.
Latin B1: Latin A1 prerequisite.—I. In Language: General grammar, with
oral and written exercises. II. In Literature: Suetonius, Lives of Julius and
Octavius; Cicero, Selections from The Letters and Philosophical Works; Caesar,
Selections from The Gallic Wars, Books V-VII, and The Civil Wars; The Elegiac
Poets. III. In Life: The Religion of the Romans. (B.A. credit, 3 sessionhours.)
Professor Montgomery, Associate Professor Lehman and Mr. Thompson.
Latin B2: Latin A1 prerequisite.—I. In Language: General grammar, with
oral and written exercises. II. In Literature: Livy, Books I and XXI; Selections
from The Annalists and Early Historians; Plautus, Two Plays; Terence, Two
Plays; Selections from Lucretius. III. In Life: The Religion of the Romans
(continued), and Elements of Roman Art. (B.A. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Montgomery, Associate Professor Lehman and Mr. Thompson.
Latin C1: Latin B1 and B2 prerequisite.—I. In Language: Historical development
of the Latin Language, with oral and written exercises. II. In Literature:
Selections from Seneca, Petronius, and Pliny's Letters; from Tacitus' Histories
and Annals; from Juvenal; from Quintilian; and from selected authors
down to Boethius. III. In Life: The life and philosophic thought of the Roman
Empire. (M.A. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Montgomery or Associate Professor Lehman.
Latin C2: Latin B1 and B2 prerequisite.—I. In Language: Comparative
study of the successive periods of the Latin language, with oral and written
exercises. II. In Literature: Reading from selected authors in provincial, Christian,
and medieval Latinity. III. The elements of Roman epigraphy and archeology.
IV. In Life: The struggle between pagan and Christian life and philosophy.
(M.A. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Montgomery or Associate Professor Lehman.
Latin D: Latin C1 and C2 prerequisite.—A two-year course for those who
desire to specialize in classical philology, especially those who choose Latin as
their major for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. If the candidate's major
be Latin, the completion of Greek C1 will be the minimum requirement. If the
candidate's major 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 and into an acquaintance with the authors illustrating the vulgar Latin
in literature.
It is the aim of this course 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; introduction
to Latin historical grammar; systematic (general) grammar; 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 paleography, epigraphy, numismatics,
and archeology. III. In Roman Life: Constructive study of Roman culture-history,
culminating in the Doctor's Dissertation; the history of classical
philology. Hours by appointment.
Professor Montgomery or Associate Professor Lehman.
