Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...facts about Troy and the later Ilion which have been transmitted to us from ancient writers. Homer, in referring to the situation of ancient Troy, gives many hints that point very directly to Ilion. Ilion itself was twice completely destroyed. The city was again rebuilt by Sulla and the Roman emperors, and was especially honored as the ancestral city of the Julii for Aeneas, the ancestor of this family, had come from Troy. In Byzantine times this great city was completely destroyed and became a wilderness...
...could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself to be Homer's City, must have stood; but no ruins were there visible except those of a Roman Illium...
...respectively. Professor Morgan succeeds Professor Smith in Latin 1. Professor Allen takes Latin 7. Several new courses, intended primarily for graduates, have been introduced. Course 54, given by Mr. Ropes, includes a study of the Acts of the Apostles. Professor Morgan will offer half-course 50, a consideration of Roman satire from Ennius to Juvenal. During the first half-year, Professor Allen will give course 47, on the Bucolics and the Georgics of Virgil. Dr. Gulick will offer course 52 during the first half-year on Greek elegiac, iambic and lyric poetry. 39, a half-course on Roman Stoicism...
Next year Professor Allen will offer Classical Philology 29 a half-course on the religion and worship of the Greeks; Professor Howard offers Classical Philology 51 on Roman Political and Legal Antiquities; Professor Morgan offers course 49 on studies in Classical Archaeology and Art; and Dr. Gulick offers course 53, a half-course in Greek Mythology...
...Williams, who conducts the college courses in Roman Law, is to take charge of Property H in the Law School next year. The courses in Damages, Interpretation of Statutes and Massachusetts Practice are to be discontinued for the year 1896-97. The first-year class is to be divided on account of its size, but both divisions will be under the same instructor...