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II.—GREEK.
PROFESSOR GILDERSLEEVE.
The subjects taught in this school, are:
1. The Greek language.
2. Greek literature.
3. History of Greece.
The method of instruction comprises lectures (systematic and
exegetical), examinations and written exercises.
This school is divided into two classes—Junior and Senior.
The classic authors read in the Senior Class, are principally:
Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides and Plato; in the Junior
Class: Lysias, Xenophon, Herodotus, Homer and Demosthenes.
A private course of parallel and preparatory reading is also prescribed
for each class.
Works of reference.—For the lectures on the structure and
syntax of the language, Kühner's Grammar.
For the lectures on the History of Greece (Senior Class),
Thirlwall's and Grote's History of Greece.
The written exercises and the comments on the corrections
constitute a prominent feature in the plan of instruction.
In connection with this school, a Post-graduate Department
has been formed, in which graduates and more advanced students
have opportunity to extend their acquaintance with Greek Literature,
under the personal direction of the Professor. This course
embraces such of the higher Greek classics, as are unsuited
either by form or by subject for the general plan of instruction;
e. g. Æschylus, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Hesiod, Pindar, Theocritus.
4. The Hebrew language.
Text Books.—Biblia Hebraica, Rödiger's Gesenius' Hebrew
Grammar, and Gesenius' Lexicon Manuale Hebraicum et Chaldaicum.
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