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On Reading Greek and Latin Source: The Classical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Feb., 1907), pp. 146-148 Published by: The Classical Association of the Middle West and South Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3287621 . Accessed: 19/05/2014 13:11 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The Classical Association of the Middle West and South is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Classical Journal. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.108.87 on Mon, 19 May 2014 13:11:43 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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On Reading Greek and LatinSource: The Classical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Feb., 1907), pp. 146-148Published by: The Classical Association of the Middle West and SouthStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3287621 .

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146 THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL

method is that adopted by the teachers who have built up in their schools the societies already referred to. The students have been won by the inherent interest of the organizations, they have come to look at their Latin and Greek from a new point of view, and, far from regarding the study as consisting solely of "dead" material, they themselves have learned, in part at least, to live through some of the experiences of the ancients. They have not merely acquired some information about Greek or Roman life, but have actually realized certain phases of it. The whole subject has become vital to them. The large registrations in the classics in those schools where the

organizations have been formed demonstrate the success of the method, and it is to be hoped that teachers in other institutions will adopt and develop the idea. Ambitious teachers will regard the extra work and self-sacrifice which such an organization entails as fully compen- sated by the satisfactory nature of the results.

LATIN IN THE SCHOOLS In his paper' on "What Kind of Language Study Aids in the

Mastery of Natural Science ?" Dr. W. T. Harris, till recently United States Commissioner of Education, besides making a strong argu- ment for the study of the classics, gives some interesting statistics. He states that in the public high schools in 1890 less than 35 per cent. of the students, or 70,411 in all, were studying Latin. In the

private schools in the same year the Latin students nmimbered 31 per cent., or 44,950. By 1904 the percentage in the high schools had risen from 35 per cent. to 51 per cent. =323,000, and in the private schools from 31 per cent. to 45 per cent.=76,050. This makes a total of nearly 400,000 students of Latin in secondary institutions.

SRead before the Department of Superintendence at Louisville, February 27, 19o6.

ON READING GREEK AND LATIN

Every classical teacher should read Professor Edward Clapp's article "On Reading Greek" in the Educational Review, Vol. XXX, pp. 243-49. Professor Clapp effectively depicts the plight of many a classical instructor. He describes the typical case of the man

who, when he first begins teaching in a high school, is sincerely ambi- tious to increase his knowledge of Greek. He wishes to become

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EDITORIAL 147

familiar with the great authors to whose works his college course has given him little more than an introduction. Presently, however, he finds that for one reason or another--the strain of teaching, committee work, church work, or some form of social activity-he is not merely not increasing his knowledge of his subject, but is even

losing ground. Professor Clapp does not minimize the difficulties of the situation. He realizes that innumerable demands are made

upon teachers; but, while realizing this, he suggests a remedy. His paper shows that, by spending a few minutes in reading each

night after the preparation of the next day's work is finished, and a

couple of hours every Saturday morning, one can cover in the course of a ten years' career as a teacher a total of more than ten thousand

pages. The rate of progress is fifteen pages a week, with an allow- ance of two or three hundred more for vacation reading. The cost of books need deter no one. Ten dollars a year would provide all the necessary texts. The list is as follows:'

POETS PAGES

Homer . . . . . . . . . gi9 Lyric Fragments . . . . . . 250 Pindar and Bacchylides . . . . 200

Aeschylus .........300 Sophocles .........365 Euripides . . . . . . . . 915 Aristophanes . . . . . . . 612 Theocritus . . . . . . . . 140

Total . . . . . . . 3,693 HISTORIANS

Herodotus . . . . . . . . 750 Thucydides . . . . . . . 600 Xenophon . . . . . . . . 1,300

Total . . . . . . . ..2,650

ORATORS PAGES

Demosthenes . . . . . . . I,140 Aeschines . . . . . . . . 198 Isocrates ... .... . . 510 Lysias ......... 233 Isaeus ......... 154 Andocides, Dinarchus, Lycur-

gus, Antiphon . . . . . . 535

Total . . . . . . . ..2,770

PHILOSOPHERS Plato (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito,

Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Charmmides, Laches, Lysis, Pro- tagoras, Gorgsas, Ion, Menexe- nus, Republic) . . . . . . 920

Aristotle (Poetics, Ethics, Politics, Constitution of the Athenians). 630

Total . . . . . . . ..1,550 Total, 10,663.

'All the extant works of each author are included, except where titles are mentioned; complete works are meant, except where parts are specifically cited. The unit is the Teubner page.

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Supplementing Professor Clapp's list for the sake of those whose interests are chiefly in Latin, we suggest the following selection:

REPUBLICAN PERIOD PAGES

Plautus (Amphitryo, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Menaech- mi, Miles Gloriosus, Mostellaria, Pseudolus, Rudens, Trinum- mus) . .. ... 630

Terence ....... 259 Lucretius i, iii, v .... . oo Catullus ....... 74 Cicero (De oratore i, iii, Brutus;

Pro Roscio Amerino, In Verrem II. iv [De signis], De lege Man-

ilia, Pro Cluentio, In Catilinam, Pro Murena, Pro Archia, Pro Caelio, Pro Plancio, Pro Rabirio Postumo, Pro Milone, Philip- pics ii, xiii); Letters [Abbott's Selections]; De finibus i, ii, Tusculanae disputationes i, ii, De natura deorum, Somnium Sci-

pionis, De officiis, De senectute, De amicitia) . ... . 1,405

Caesar . ....... 342 Sallust . . ....... 38 Nepos . .... . 113

Total . ...... 3,o06

AUGUSTAN AGE

Virgil . ........ 375 Horace . ....... 270 Tibullus . ....... 57 Propertius . ...... 118 Ovid (Amores i, Heroides i, iii, v,

viii, x, xii, Ars amatoria i; Me-

tamorphoses; Fasti i; Tris- tia i) ....... 442

Livy ....... . 1,848 Total . .. . 3,110

Total, 9,160

FROM TIBERIUS TO HADRIAN

(14--117 A. D.) PAGES

Phaedrus . ....... 52 Seneca (Troades, Medea, Octavia;

De dementia, Consolatio ad Helviam, De tranquillitate; Epistulae morales i-v; Apocolo- cyntosis) ...... 329

Lucan i, vii ...... 6o Persius . ....... 20 Petronius (Cena Trimalchionis) . 55 Statius (Thebaid i, ii) . . . 56 Silius Italicus i ..... 24 Martial (Stephenson's Selections) 130 Quintilian (Institutiones oratoriae

, x, xii).. ....... 45 Tacitus ........ 689 Juvenal ....... 85 Pliny the Younger . . . 300

Total . ..... . 1,945 FROM HADRIAN TO CONSTANTINE

(117-324 A. D.)

Suetonius (Vitae Caesarum) . 254 Gellius i ....... 42 Fronto (Ad. M. Caesarem et in-

vicem libri i, ii) ..... . 38 Apuleius (Cupid and Psyche). . 45 Pervigilium Veneris . . . . 4 Minucius Felix (Octavius) . . 6 Tertullian (Apologeticum) . . o Historia Augusta (Vita Ha-

driani, Vita Marci Antonini) .55

Total ... 609 FROM THE FOURTH TO THE FIFTH

CENTURY

Ausonius (Mosella) . . . 24 Claudian (De raptu Proserpinae) 34 Prudentius (Peristephanon i-iv) 50 Ammianus (Iulianus) .

1. . 35 Augustine (Confessions i-ix) . . 92

Total . ...... 435

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