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Caption: Course Catalog - 1892-1893
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122 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. present civilization to the classic world is so large and so varied that abundant opportunity is afforded for a fruitful study of the growth and descent of ideas and institutions. Conversations upon the governmental, moral, educational, and esthetic ideas of the ancients are used to elucidate these questions, and students are required to use the library, and the numerous photographs and other apparatus of instruction that»are at their command for further information in special work to be assigned from time to time. The two purposes are, then, to deal rationally with language as language, and to make this study a fruitful source of information upon questions that must concern every thoughtful person. GREEK. 1. Selections from Herodotus.—Special studies in verb syntax. etymology. Greek prose. Mather, Fall term, full study. fessor Moss. Ionic Pro- 2. Selections from Xenophon's Hellenica.—Studies in syntax. Greek prose. Consideration of the causes of the downfall of Athens. Manatt. Winter term, full study. Professor Moss. Required. Greek, I. 3. Xenophon's Memorabilia.—Studies in syntax. Consideration of the work of Socrates as a public teacher. Winans. Spring term, full study. Professor Moss. Required; Greek, 1, 2. 4. Selections from the Orations of Lysias and Demosthenes.—Comparative study of the syntax of the two authors. Discussions upon the development of Greek oratory. Stevens; Tyler; Tarbell. Fall term, full study. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1, 2, 3. 5. Plato's Apology; and Selections from the Phaedo.—Studies in the rhetoric and idiom of Plato. Outline of his philosophical views, so far as touched upon in the text read. Wagner. Winter term, full study. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1, 2, 3, 4. 6. Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, and Euripides' Alcestis.—Studies in the history and characteristics of the Greek drama. Prickard; Jerram. Spring term, full study. Professor Moss. Required: Greek, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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