 | University of Virginia record March 15, 1916 |  |
CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY AND ANCIENT ART.
1. Beginners' Latin.—This course is intended for teachers in high
schools and academies, for college preparation and for students of
Latin at large. It involves the Roman pronunciation; careful study
of accent and quantity; thorough drill in declensions and conjugations;
the fundamental principles of the syntax of the cases, tenses,
and moods, the accusative and infinitive, relative and conditional
sentences, uses of the subjunctive; and the main laws of indirect
discourse. These grammatical principles will be illustrated in
systematic exercises in translating easy detached sentences into
Latin; translation into English of easy Latin prose preparatory to
Cæsar will also be required.
Section I, daily, from 8:30 to 9:30; Section II, daily from 2:30 to
3:30. Professor McLemore and Bishop. Cabell Hall.
2. Cæsar.—This course is offered for teachers in high schools and
academies, for college preparation, and for students of Latin at
large. It involves Cæsar's Gallic War I-IV, with collateral readings
in Viri Romæ and Roman history. Constant practice in sight
reading and systematic study of high school Latin grammar, with
accompanying prose composition based on Cæsar, will be required.
Grammar and prose composition will be treated on Tuesdays and
Thursdays, and literature and life—Cæsar varied with Viri Romæ
and the broad outlines of Roman Culture-history—on Mondays,
Wednesdays, Fridays.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Barss' Writing Latin
(Book One); Cæsar's Gallic War; Viri Romæ; Myers' Ancient History
and Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Bishop. Cabell Hall,
Room 1.
3. Cicero.—This course is offered for teachers in high schools and
academies, for college preparation, and for students of Latin at
large. It involves Cicero's Four Orations against Catiline. The Manilian
Law, and Pro Archia, with collateral readings in Nepos'
Lives, and the private life of the Romans. Constant practice in
sight reading will be required, and high school grammar with accompanying
prose composition based on Cicero will be continued.
Grammar and prose composition will fall on Tuesdays and Thursdays;
Cicero, varied with Nepos and the private life of the Romans,
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Barss' Writing Latin
(Book Two); Cicero's Orations; Nepos' Lives; Johnston's Private Life
of the Romans.
Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. Mr. Gooch. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
4. Vergil I-VI.—This course is offered for teachers in high schools
and academies, for college preparation, and for students of Latin
at large. It involves Vergil's Æneid I-VI, with collateral readings
in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the principles of Latin quantitative versification
as applied to the dactylic hexameter, and the mythology of
the Greeks and Romans. Constant practice in sight reading will be
required, and high school grammar, with accompanying prose composition
based on Cæsar and Cicero, will be concluded. Grammar
and prose composition will come on Tuesdays and Thursdays; Vergil,
varied with Ovid, and the mythology of the Greeks and Romans
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Nutting's Supplementary
Latin Composition; Vergil's Æneid; Ovid's Metamorphoses (Miller);
Fairbanks' Mythology of Greece and Rome.
Tuesday and Thursday, from 9:30 to 10:30. Mr. Barton. Cabell
Hall, Room 1.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 9:30 to 10:30. Professor
McLemore. Cabell Hall. Room 1.
5. Vergil's Æneid, VII-XII.—This course is offered for teachers
in colleges, for college students, and for students of Latin at large.
It is identical with the second term of course A1 in the winter. It
involves Vergil's Æneid VII-XII and Ovid's Metamorphoses XIII-XIV,
with the study of the rhythm of epic verse; the private life of the
Romans; college grammar and prose composition. The literature
and life will fall on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the grammar
and prose composition on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Text-Books.—Gildersleeve-Lodge's Larger Latin Grammar and Mather-Wheeler's
Latin Prose Writings; Vergil's Æneid, VII-XII and
Ovid's Metamorphoses XIII-XIV; Johnston's Private Life of the
Romans.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor
FitzHugh. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Tuesday and Thursday, from 10:30 to 11:30. Mr. Barton. Cabell
Hall, Room 1.
6. Catullus.—This course is offered for teachers in colleges, for
college students, and for students of Latin at large. It is identical
with the second term of course B1 in the winter. It involves Catullus
and the Elegiac Poets, with the study of lyric and elegiac
verse; mythology; college grammar and prose composition. The
literature and life will fall on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays,
the grammar and prose composition on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Text-Books.—Gildersleeve-Lodge's Larger Latin Grammar and Latin
Composition; Catullus and the Elegiac Poets; Fairbanks' Mythology of
Greece and Rome.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from 9:30 to 10:30. Professor
FitzHugh. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Wednesday and Friday, from 9:30 to 10:30. Mr. Barton. Cabell
Hall, Room 1.
7. Plautus.—This course is offered for teachers in colleges, for
college students, and for students of Latin at large. It is identical
with the second term of course C1 in the winter. It involves Plautus'
Captivi, Terence's Phormio, and Horace's Satirics and Epistles,
with the study of the meters of the drama; the history of Latin
and life will fall on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, the
grammar and prose composition on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Language and Bennett's Second Latin
Writer; Plautus' Captivi, Terence's Phormio, and Horace's Satirics
and Epistles; Duff's Literary History of Rome and Laing's Masterpieces
of Latin Literature.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor
FitzHugh. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Wednesday and Friday, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor McLemore.
Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Note.—Course 5 is the full equivalent of the second term of Latin
A1 in the University of Virginia catalogue; Course 6 is the full
equivalent of the second term of Latin B1 or B2 in the University
of Virginia catalogue; Course 7 is the full equivalent of the second
term of Latin C1 or C2 in the University of Virginia catalogue.
University Credit.—Any student who fulfills the conditions set
forth on page 18 and who completes successfully Courses 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10 will receive credit for the corresponding courses in the
University of Virginia catalogue.
8. Beginners' Greek.—This course, the exact equivalent of the
first term of Greek 1 in the University of Virginia catalogue, involves
the study of the first thirty-five lessons of the Beginner's
Greek Book. There will be a thorough drill in the forms and principles
of syntax in these lessons, with translations of detached sentences,
Greek into English and English into Greek.
Text-Book.—Benner and Smyth, Beginners' Greek Book.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Mr. Gooch. Cabell Hall, Room 1. (See
note.)
9. Xenophon.—The course includes Xenophon's Anabasis, Book
I, Greek grammar and prose composition.
Text-Books.—Goodwin and White's Xenophon's Anabasis; Goodwin's
Greek Grammar; Pearson's Greek Prose Composition.
Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Mr. Barton. Cabell Hall. (See note.)
10. Ancient Art.—This course is free, and intended for all who are
interested in the origin and history of human culture as illustrated
in art. The purpose of the course is to portray with the aid of lantern-slides
the origin and history of European culture with special
reference to the typical monuments of art in the palaeolithic, neolithic,
Egyptian, and Oriental, Aegean, and Graeco-Roman periods.
Text-Book.—Reinach's Apollo; An illustrated Manual of the History
of Art throughout the Ages.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 12:15 to 1:15. Professor
FitzHugh. Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Note.—Classes 8 and 9 will not be organized unless a sufficient
number of students apply to justify it. A fee of from $5 to $10.00
will be charged for each of these courses, the amount depending on
the number of students.
Certificate Credit.—Summer School Professional Certificate, Advanced
Grade—Latin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7; Summer School Professional
Certificate—High School Grade—Latin 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
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