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Memorandum by Gerard E. Stack to Thomas Jefferson on Curriculum for Charlottesville Academy, [April–May 1819]

Memorandum by Gerard E. Stack on Curriculum for Charlottesville Academy

[April–May 1819]

The following course of classical education is proposed by Mr S. for the Charlottesville Academy.

 
Latin  Greek
Mair’s Introduction. Testament. John & Acts.
Cesar. 4 Books. Lucian. Murphy 2 Books
Prosody. Nelson’s Exercises.
Sallust. Cataline & Jugu war. Xenophon 4 Books.
Virgil. Ecl. Eneid 6 Books, & Georgics. Epictetes. Tabula.1 Cleanthes.
Horace. Odes, Satires, Epistles & Art of Poetry. Homer 12 Books.
Juvenal. 1. 2. 3. 10. 13. 14 Satires. Persius. Demosthenes. περι στεφανου.
Terence 3 Comedies. Longinus.
Cicero’s Orations Antiquities Potter.
Livy 5 Books.
Tacitus. Antiquities2 Adams or Kennet.
Composition in Latin prose & Verse in imitation of the Latin Poets.
Gradus ad parnassum.
Virgil the last 6 Books
Terence  〃 〃 3 Comedies.
Livy 〃 〃 40 Books
Xenophon  the last 4 Books.
Memorables
Homer the last 12 Books
Cicero de oratore Euripidis.
Pliny’s Letters. Sophocles.3
 
French. }
Grammar
 Fables
Telemachus
Gil-Blas
  Dialogues
 Geography.
  History.

MS (ViU: TJP); in Stack’s hand; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Stack.”

nelson’s exercises: William Neilson, Greek Exercises, in Syntax, Ellipsis, Dialects, Prosody, and Metaphrasis (2d ed., Edinburgh, 1806, and other eds.; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 851]). Περὶ τοῦ Στεφάνου (περι στεφανου): On the Crown. gradus ad parnassum (“a step toward Parnassus”) was “a dictionary of prosody” long in use “in English public schools, intended as an aid in Latin versification” (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ; for TJ’s copies, specific edition unknown, see Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 4798; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 872]).

telemachus was François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, Les Avantures de Telemaque (Paris, 1699, and other eds.; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends nos. 4305–7), while gil-blas was Alain René Le Sage, Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Paris, 1715–35; repr. London, 1769; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 4346).

1TJ mistakenly interlined “Cebetis” (Cebes of Thebes) above the next, not the preceding, word.

2Manuscript: “Antiqiuties.”

3Recto ends here.

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  • Adam, Alexander; Roman Antiquities search
  • Aeneid (Virgil) search
  • An Introduction to Latin Syntax (J. Mair) search
  • Archæologia Græca: or the Antiquities of Greece (J. Potter) search
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  • Bible; Acts referenced search
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  • Bible; New Testament search
  • books; classical search
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  • Caesar, Julius; writings of search
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  • Cleanthes; works of search
  • Conspiracy of Catiline (Sallust) search
  • Demosthenes; On the Crown search
  • Eclogues (Virgil) search
  • education; French language search
  • education; Latin search
  • Epictetus (Greek philosopher); works of search
  • Epistles (Horace) search
  • Euripides; works of search
  • fables; French search
  • Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe; Les Avantures de Telemaque search
  • French language; study of search
  • geography; study of search
  • Georgics (Virgil) search
  • grammar; study of search
  • Greek Exercises, in Syntax, Ellipsis, Dialects, Prosody, and Metaphrasis (W. Neilson) search
  • Greek language; study of search
  • Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (A. R. Le Sage) search
  • history; study of search
  • History of the Jugurthine War (Sallust) search
  • Homer; works of search
  • Horace; Ars Poetica search
  • Horace; Epistles search
  • Horace; Odes search
  • Horace; Satires search
  • Juvenal; works of search
  • Kennett, Basil; Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, The Antiquities of Rome search
  • Latin language; dictionaries search
  • Latin language; study of search
  • Le Sage, Alain René; Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane search
  • Les Avantures de Telemaque (Fénelon) search
  • Livy; works of search
  • Lucian; dialogues of, E. Murphy edition of search
  • Mair, John; An Introduction to Latin Syntax search
  • Memorabilia (Xenophon) search
  • Murphy, Edward; edits Lucian’s dialogues search
  • Neilson, William; Greek Exercises, in Syntax, Ellipsis, Dialects, Prosody, and Metaphrasis search
  • Odes (Horace) search
  • On the Crown (Demosthenes) search
  • On the Sublime (“Longinus”) search
  • Persius Flaccus, Aulus; works of search
  • Pliny (the Younger); letters of search
  • poetry; study of search
  • Potter, John (Archbishop of Canterbury); Archæologia Græca: or the Antiquities of Greece search
  • Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, The Antiquities of Rome (B. Kennett) search
  • Roman Antiquities (A. Adam) search
  • Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus); Conspiracy of Catiline search
  • Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus); History of the Jugurthine War search
  • Satires (Horace) search
  • Sophocles; works of search
  • Stack, Gerard E.; and Charlottesville Academy search
  • Tabula Cebetis search
  • Tacitus, Cornelius; writings of search
  • Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) search
  • Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro); Aeneid search
  • Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro); Eclogues search
  • Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro); Georgics search
  • Xenophon; Memorabilia search
  • Xenophon; works of search
  • “Longinus” (Greek critic); On the Sublime search