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SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Fitz-Hugh.
Mr. Bolling.
Mr. Myers.
Mr. McLemore.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The four
blocks prescribed on page 73 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, involving the Roman pronunciation, habitual observance
of quantity and accent, regular drill in grammar and prose composition
through all preparatory years, elementary Reader (Viri Romae),
Nepos (Roman Lives), Cæsar's Gallic War, Cicero's easier Orations, Ovid's
Metamorphoses, and Vergil's Aeneid. 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 further called to the importance of beginning Greek for
all who wish to reap the full cultural benefit of the University courses in
Latin. The study of at least one Romanic language also is very desirable.
The Greek illumines incomparably all parts of Latin study, which bears in
turn a like relation to the Romanic.
General Statement.—The first three years of University Latin
are devoted to the broad cultural study of the language, literature, and life
of the Romans. In the course of the instruction the effort is made to
exhibit, as far as possible, the relation of Roman civilization to the Greek,
on the one hand, and to Romanic and modern on the other, and thus to
emphasize the unity and continuity of all human culture. The great desirability
of a knowledge of Greek and of at least one Romanic language is
therefore 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.
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).
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Course 4C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either
prerequisite.
I. In Language: Higher Syntax of the Cases (Gildersleeve-Lodge,
Peters), with oral and written exercises (Bennett, Moore, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Epistolary and historical, Cicero's Letters, and
Tacitus' Annals—dramatic and satiric, Plautus' Captivi, Terence's Andria,
and Horace's Satires and Epistles, with study of the meters of scenic and
Orators.
III. In Life: The history of Roman Literature (MacKail's Latin
Literature, and Laing's Masterpieces of Latin Literature).
Course 5C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either
prerequisite.—Given in alternate years with Course 4C, and furnishing a
second M. A. elective in Latin.
I. In Language: Higher Syntax of the Moods (Gildersleeve-Lodge,
Peters), with oral and written exercises (Bennett, Moore, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Histories, and
Pliny's Letters—dramatic and satiric, Plautus' Mostellaria, Terence's
Phormio, and Juvenal's Satires, with study of the meters of scenic and
satiric verse—philosophic, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and Cicero's De
Natura Deorum.
III. In Life: The history of Roman philosophy (Mayor's History of
Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero, and Pater's Marius the Epicurean.)
For Graduates Only.
Course 6D: Cource 4C or Course 5C, or the equivalent of either, prerequisite.—This
course is intended for those who desire to specialize in classical
philology, and especially for those who choose Latin as their major
elective for the degree of Doctor of Philisophy. Roman civilization is the 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
main subject be Latin, a respectable familiarity with Greek is required,
since the language, literature, and higher culture of the Romans
are saturated with Greek influence. If the candidate's main subject be
Romanic, the Greek requirement is waived as far as practically possible,
and he is guided into the history of the Roman folk speech, the common
source of the Romanic tongues, and into acquaintance with the authors
who illustrate it 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
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,
Mau, Strack, Furtwaengler).
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-Jordan,
Springer-Michaelis and Winter, Schanz, Windelband).
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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