University of Virginia Library

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.