For Undergraduates.
Latin A1: Latin A, B, C, and D, of the entrance requirements, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Mather-Wheeler, Moulton-Collar).
II. In Literature: Historical, Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy
of Catiline—epic, Vergil's Æneid (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 and public life of
the Romans (Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Myers' Ancient History, Johnston's
Private Life of the Romans, Tighe's Roman Constitution).
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section 1, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 1-2; Section II, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell
Hall. Professor FitzHugh, Mr. Barton, Mr. Nelson.
Latin B1: Latin A1 or its equivalent, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Nutting, Gildersleeve-Lodge, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and biographic, Livy's Early History
of Rome (Books I-II) and Tacitus' Agricola—lyric and elegiac, Catullus'
Odes and the Elegiac Poets, with study of the lyric and elegiac meters—
philosophic, Cicero's De Officiis and Seneca's Moral Essays.
III. In Life: The religion and mythology of the Romans (Carter's
Religion of Numa, Fairbank's Mythology of Greece and Rome.)
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12.
Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh, Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Latin B2: Latin A1, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Nutting, Gildersleeve-Lodge, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and descriptive, Livy's Hannibalic War
(Books XXI-XXII) and Tacitus' Germania—lyric, idyllic, and didactic,
Horace's Odes and Vergil's Bucolics and Georgics, with study of the meters
of lyric verse—critical and didactic, Cicero's De Claris Oratoribus and Quintilian's
Training of the Orator.
III. In Life: The art of the Romans (Reinach's Apollo, Tarbell's
History of Greek Art, Goodyear's Roman Art).
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12.
Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh, Adjunct Professor McLemore.
