University of Virginia Library

SCHOOL OF GREEK.

Prof. Wheeler.

The School is organized in three classes, the Junior, the Intermediate,
and the Senior. The method of instruction is by lectures, by
daily examination upon the matter of the lectures and upon assigned
portions of the text-books, and by written and oral exercises.

A full knowledge of the regular Attic inflections and some experience
in translation are necessary as a preparation for the Junior Class. Two
books of Xenophon's Anabasis, or some suitable equivalent, may be regarded
as a proper amount of preparatory reading. Students inadequately
prepared may often, if ambitious and diligent, make good progress
with the aid of a Licentiate. (See p. 70.)

The Junior Class is intended to give a practical familiarity with the
simpler Attic prose. The grammar is rapidly but carefully reviewed; for
translation into Greek, sentences are given out which involve the vocabulary
and the idioms of the Greek texts studied. The authors read are
Xenophon (parts of the Memorabilia and of the Cyropedia), and Lysias.
The Geography and Political History of Greece are also taught in this
class.

The Intermediate Class, for which the Junior course, or some
equivalent, is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of Attic
prose usage, and gives an introduction to authors of great literary importance
who wrote in other dialects. The exercises for translation into
Greek, to which great attention is given, are based upon assigned passages
from Lysias, whose usage students are urged to observe and imitate.
Selected portions of the grammar are closely studied, especially the use
of Cases, of Prepositions, of the Negatives, and the Formation of Words.
The authors read are Lysias, Herodotus, and Homer. Instruction in
Greek Antiquities is also given in this class.

The Senior Class demands such attainments as may be acquired in
the two lower classes, or an equivalent. The main purpose of the instruction
is to introduce students, so far as practicable, to the masterpieces
of the literature of Athens. The authors read this session are
Demosthenes, Plato, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and the fragments
of the Lyric Poets. The Syntax of the Greek Verb is discussed,
and courses of lectures are given upon the History of Greek Literature,
Metres, and Historical Grammar.

Text-books.—Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon, Veitch's Greek Verbs, Hadley's
Greek Grammar, Goodwin's Greek Moods and Tenses, Smith's History of Greece,
Fyffe's Primer of Greek History, Tozer's Primer of Ancient Geography, Mahaffy's
Primer of Greek Antiquities, and the Teubner (or Weidmann) text editions of the
authors read.

For each class a course of private reading is prescribed, and weekly
exercises in Greek composition are given out.

The state of preparation of a student joining the school may often
make it expedient to take two classes at once.

In the examination of candidates for graduation, all the subjects
taught in the School are involved, and the passages set for translation
are selected from the classic writers at will.

Hebrew.—The Professor will give elementary instruction in Hebrew,
when the demand for such instruction is sufficient.