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. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Cicero de oratore | Euripidis. | |||||||||||||||||
| Pliny’s Letters. | Sophocles.3 | |||||||||||||||||
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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.; , 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” (; for TJ’s copies, specific edition unknown, see no. 4798; , 13 [no. 872]).
telemachus was François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, Les Avantures de Telemaque (Paris, 1699, and other eds.; nos. 4305–7), while gil-blas was Alain René Le Sage, Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Paris, 1715–35; repr. London, 1769; no. 4346).
1. TJ mistakenly interlined “Cebetis” (Cebes of Thebes) above the next, not the preceding, word.
2. Manuscript: “Antiqiuties.”
3. Recto ends here.
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