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SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Humphreys.
Dr. Sears.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
This school comprises the following courses:
Primarily for Undergraduates.
Course 1: A course for beginners. Text-books: Benner and Smyth's
Beginner's Greek Book; Xenophon's Anabasis. Young men who have the
opportunity are urged to prepare themselves for the next course (2) or
Course 3 before coming to the University.
Course 2: Course 1 prerequisite or the Entrance Examination in
Greek (or its equivalent).—A course of easy Attic Prose: Xenophon's
Memorabilia and Hellenica, Lysias, Goodwin's Grammar, Elementary
Exercises.
Course 3: Course 2 (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—A course of
Attic Prose and the Drama, Herodotus and Homer, Syntax, Exercises,
Literature, History, Meters, etc. The class will begin with Plato's
Apology and Crito.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Course 4: Course 3 prerequisite.—A more advanced course, including
portions of Demosthenes, Thucydides, Æschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes,
Lyric Poets; also Meters, Syntax, and Exercises.
For Graduates Only.
Courses 5 and 6: Course 4 prerequisite.—Designed for those who
wish to devote themselves to classical scholarship, and especially for
of Philosophy. For admission to these courses, proficiency in Courses 2
and 3, or equivalent preparation, is required. The course 4 may be taken
as the first year Ph. D. course. At present the additional work consists
of four special courses, each comprising three hours per week during a
half session. The lectures will be employed chiefiy in directing the
private study of the students.
The four special courses offered at present are as follows:
I. A course of selected readings extending over the whole field of
Greek literature in the order of historical development. This course is
intended as a general survey.
II. A course in Attic Prose, especially the orators, directed partly
to questions of grammar, and partly to the artistic form and style.
III. A study of the Attic drama, including the special study in class
of the Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles and the Frogs of Aristophanes.
IV. A study of the Greek poets, with special reference to music,
rhythm, meter, and structure. The ancient doctrine of meter and rhythm
will be carefully examined, and portions of the Lyric poets, including
Pindar, read in class.
For all the classes of this School private reading is prescribed, and
the examinations will be partly upon this and the work done in class, and
partly upon passages selected from the Greek authors at will.
Text-Books.—Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Moods and Tenses;
Veitch's Verbs; Liddell and Scott's Lexicon (intermediate, and in Courses
II and III, unabridged edition); Morey's History of Greece; Fowler's Greek
Literature. Any editions of Greek authors may be used, except when particular
ones are specially prescribed; but students should always have at hand
Teubner's texts for reference, and for use on examinations. At present
Rhythm and Meters and some other subjects are taught wholly or partly by
lecture.
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