SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Fitz-Hugh.
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Mr. Barton.
Mr. Lehman.
Students may enter any of the courses in Latin at the beginning of any
term of the session, and will receive full credit for the course on completing
subsequently the work of the remaining term or terms of the course
in question.
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. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
1-2; Section II, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Professor
Fitz-Hugh, Mr. Barton, Mr. Lehman.
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, 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, Fairbanks' Mythology of Greece and Rome).
(B.A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12.
Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, 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, 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 Fitz-Hugh, Mr. Barton.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Latin C1: Latin B1 and B2, or the equivalent of both, prerequisite.
I. In Language: History of the Latin Language (Whitney's Language
and the Study of Language, Bennett's Latin Language), with oral and written
exercises (Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Annals and
Cicero's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Captivi, Terence's Phormio,
and Horace's Satires and Epistles, with study of the meters of the drama—
critical, Cicero's De Oratore and Orator, and Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus.
III. In Life: The literary life of the Romans (Duff's Literary History
of Rome and Laing's Masterpieces of Latin Literature).
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh,
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Latin C2: Latin B1 and B2, or the equivalent of both, prerequisite.
I. In Language: History of the Latin Language (Whitney's Life and
Growth of Language, Grandgent's Vulgar Latin), with oral and written exercises
(Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Histories and
Pliny's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Mostellaria, Terence's
Andria, and Juvenal's Satires, with study of the meters of the drama—philosophic,
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura and Cicero's De Natura Deorum.
III. In Life: The philosophic life of the Romans (Mackail's Latin
Literature, Mayor's History of Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero, and
Pater's Marius the Epicurean).
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh,
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
For Graduates.
Latin D1: Latin C1 or C2, or the equivalent of either, prerequisite.—This
course extends through three years and is intended for those who desire
to specialize for one, two or three years in classical philology. It contemplates
especially the needs of those who choose Latin as their major for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. If the candidate's major be Latin, a
respectable familiarity with Greek is required, since the language, literature,
and life of the Romans are saturated with Greek influence. 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, the common source of the Romanic tongues, and into
an acquaintance with the authors illustrating the Vulgar Latin in literature.
Plan of Work.—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 (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 (Kühner) with
stylistic exercises, oral and written, in conjunction 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
palœography (Johnston, supplemented by Thompson), epigraphy (Lindsay,
supplemented by Egbert and Cagnat), numismatics (Gnecchi, supplemented
by Hill), topography and remains (Platner, Petersen, Huelsen, Mau, Strack,
Furtwængler).
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, Wissowa, Preller-Jordan, Springer-Michaelis
and Winter, Schanz, Windelband, Sandys).
Friday, Saturday, 12-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Adjunct
Professor McLemore.
Aids.—For the sake of first-hand access to important modern authorities
in Latin philology, the candidate is required to have a good reading
knowledge of German and French.
For summer-school courses in Latin on which college credit is allowed,
see p. 256.
