SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Webb.
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Required for admission to the school: The general entrance requirements.
General Statement. The primary object of the courses open to
undergraduates in the School of Greek is to enable the student to
read and appreciate the masterpieces of Greek Literature. To that
end at least two entire hours of the three weekly meetings of each
course are devoted to the translation and interpretation of assigned
portions of text, and to the treatment of those broader questions
which must claim the attention of every intelligent student of literature.
Owing to the limited number of courses which can be offered,
no attempt has been made to group in a single course the authors of
a particular period or of a particular field. The content of the courses
has been determined solely by the comparative difficulty of the authors
read. Those students, however, who complete the entire program
will have made the acquaintance of at least one author of
importance in each field and in each period, and will have some conception
of the respective positions occupied by these authors in the
history of literature.
The study of grammar will not be treated as an end in itself, but
the ability of the student to construe his authors satisfactorily will
be constantly tested. To insure further a practical familiarity with
grammatical principles, and to cultivate a feeling for idiom and style,
exercises in prose composition will form an important part of the
work of each course.
Finally, since it is desirable that the broader aspects of ancient life
be covered by the student in a more comprehensive way than can be
done in the regular lectures and recitations, collateral reading in
English on various subjects will be assigned for outside work, and
questions based upon this reading will be included in each examination.
For Undergraduates.
Greek A1: For beginners. This course is designed to meet the
needs of students who wish to gain in a short time a working knowledge
of Greek, either as an aid to the study of other subjects (e. g.,
languages, history, theology), or with a view to entering upon a
more extended study of Greek. It is to be especially noted that this
course is by no means intended to supplant the work of the secondary
schools, but to compensate the student, so far as may be, for his
loss in having missed the much more normal and satisfactory training
which the schools can give. The course consists of a rapid and
thorough drill in the forms and fundamental principles of the language,
and of practice in translation, which receives an increasingly
large proportion of emphasis as the session advances. By the end
of the course the student should have acquired considerable facility
in the reading of simple narrative prose.
Text-Books.—Benner and Smyth, Beginners' Greek Book; Goodwin and White,
Xenophon's Anabasis.
(No credit value for any degree. Admits to Greek A2 only.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Cabell Hall. Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Greek A2: Course A1 or its equivalent, prerequisite. Selections
from Xenophon's Memorabilia; Plato's Apology and Crito; selected
orations of Lysias; Homer's Iliad i—iii. Grammar and prose composition.
Collateral reading: Greek history and private and public life.
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Webb.
Greek B1: Course A2 or its equivalent, prerequisite. Portions of
Herodotus vii and viii; selections from the lyric poets, including
Sappho, Alcaeus, Simonides, Anacreon, Archilochus, and others;
Euripides' Medea; Aristophanes' Clouds. Grammar and prose composition.
Collateral reading: mythology and the history of Greek
literature.
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Webb.
Greek B2: Course B1 or its equivalent, prerequisite. Demosthenes'
On the Crown, with a comparative study of Aeschines' Against
Ctesiphon; Menander's Epitrepontes; Aristophanes' Birds; Sophocles'
Antigone. Prose composition. Collateral reading: Archæology and
the history of Greek art.
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Webb.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Greek C1: Course B1 and B2 prerequisite. Thucydides, Book iii;
selections from Theocritus; Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus; Aeschylus'
Prometheus; Aristophanes' Frogs. Prose Composition. Collateral
reading: Greek religion and philosophy. Hours by appointment.
Cabell Hall. Professor Webb.
Primarily for Graduates.
Greek D1: This course is intended for those who wish to prosecute
the study of Greek beyond Course C1, especially for those seeking
the degree of Ph. D. The content of the course will vary according
to the amount and the nature of the work already done by the
student, and the object he has in view. In general, the course will
consist of the rapid reading of Greek authors, and of an intensive
study of some particular field of Classical Philology. Hours by appointment.
Professor
Webb.
