CLAS 10 Introductory Greek
For students who have not matriculated in Greek. 4 lectures.
Classics (CLAS)
27 courses in the 1966–67 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
N. H. High, M.S., Ph.D. (Cornell) Acting Chairman of the Department and Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Faculty listed in 1966–67
B. J. Graf, C.R., M.A. (Western) - - - - Professor J P. G. Keleher, C.R., M.A. (St. Mary’s, Kentucky) - Associate Professor J P. Keresztes, M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Graz) - Assistant Professor Sister M. Stella, S.S.N.D., B.A. (Toronto), M.A.
(Catholic University) - - - - Assistant Professor R. L. Porter, B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Princeton) - - Lecturer G. Rich, C.R., B.A. (Western), S.T.B. Gregorian, Rome - Lecturer J W. H. Schnarr, C.R., B.A. (St. Mary’s, Kentucky) - - Lecturer J S. Haag, B.A., M.A. (Queen’s) - - - Lecturer (part-time) V. M. Warrior, (Miss) B.A. (Cambridge), M.A. (McMaster) - Lecturer
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Note: The number of hours or lectures shown after the course description is an attempt to indicate the “normal”; each instructor determines how often his particular class will meet.
Except for those numbered below 100, all the following courses are Honours courses, but are also open to students in General Arts.
Greek
CLAS 100 Epic and Philosophy (to Plato)
Homer, Iliad, 1, VI, LX; Plato, Apology and Crito; prose composition and sight translation.
Prerequisite: Grade 13 Greek, Greek 10, or permission.
4 lectures.
Department of Classics
CLAS 250 Prose Composition and Sight Translation
1 lecture.
CLAS 260 History, Historiography, and Lyric Poetry
Herodotus VI, VII, 1-25; VIII, the Greek lyric and elegiac poets. 4 lectures.
CLAS 350 Prose Composition and Sight Translation
1 lecture.
CLAS 360 History, Historiography, and Tragedy
Thucydides I-VI (Selections), VII, Euripides, Medea. 3 lectures.
CLAS 370 Drama and Literary Criticism
Aeschylus, Agamemnon; Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos; Aristophanes, Clouds; Aristotle, Poetics. 3 lectures
CLAS 450 Prose Composition and Sight Translation
1 lecture.
CLAS 460 Philosophy and Political Theory: Plato and After
Plato, Republic (Selections) and Symposium; Aristotle, Ethics and Politics (Selections).
CLAS 470 Oratory and Biography
Demosthenes, Philippics I, Olynthiacs; selections from Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates and Isaeus, Plutarch, Demosthenes and Timoleon.
3 lectures.
Latin
CLAS 10 Introductory Latin
For Students who have not matriculated in Latin. Must be followed by Latin 100 in order to gain credit. 4 lectures.
CLAS 100 Literature of the Republic
Catullus (Selections); Cicero, Pro Archia; Vergil, Eclogues and Georgics I, IV; prose composition and sight translation. Prerequisite: Grade 13 Latin, or Latin 10, or Latin 50J, or permission.
4 lectures.
CLAS 250 Prose Composition and Sight Translation
1 lecture.
CLAS 260 Letters and Epic
Selections from the letters of Cicero and Pliny; Vergil, Aeneid II, 1V, VI. 3 lectures.
CLAS 350 Prose Composition and Sight Translation
1 lecture.
CLAS 360 History, Historiography, and Oratory
Caesar, De Bello Civili I; Livy XXI, XXII; Res Gestae; Ciecro, Pro Caelio, Pro Marcello. 3 lectures.
CLAS 370 Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
Horace, Odes and Carmen Saeculare; selections from Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. 3 lectures.
CLAS 380 Literature of the Silver Age
Seneca, Medea, Selections from the Letters; Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis; Apuleius, Apolgia, Selection from the Metamorphoses.
3 hours.
CLAS 450 Prose Composition and Sight Translation
1 lecture.
CLAS 460 Philpsophy and Satire
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I, III, and V (Selections); Cicero, De Officiis; Horace, Satires (selections); Juvenal, Satires (selections).
3 lectures.
CLAS 470 Comedy, Historiography, and Literary Criticism
Plautus, Rudens; Terence, Phormio; Tacitus, Annals XI-XVI (Selections); Quintilian X. 3 lectures.
CLAS 480 Historical Monograph
Sallust, Catiline; Suetonius, Caligula; Seneca, Apocolocyntosis; Tacitus, Agricola. 3 lectures.
Classical Civilization (Courses in Translation)
CLAS 251 Near Eastern and Greek History. A survey of the civilizations of the Near
East and of Greece emphasizing their political, military, social and economic aspects.
3 lectures per week, half course.
CLAS 252 Roman History. A military, political, social, economic. survey of Rome
from earliest times to the Empire’s fall. 3 lectures per week, half course.
CLAS 260 Classical Literature in Translation
Greek and Roman epic, drama, and verse. 3 lectures.
CLAS 350 Classical Art and Archaeology
A survey of art and architecture from the Aegean age through the Roman Empire. 3 lectures.
CLAS 370 Myth, Religion, and Art
Deities, myths, and sagas correlated with literature, religion, philosophy, politics, and art from the 6th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D.
3 lectures.