DEAN SWIFT, in his description of the battle between the ancient and the modern books in the king’s library, has very wisely refrained from telling the outcome of the encounter. No violent polemic is ...

Explore how the art, literature, and philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome shaped today’s world. From democracy and justice to questions of identity, class, race, religion, and power, Classical ...

You will learn about all aspects of life in Greco-Roman antiquity and the knowledge you gain will enhance your appreciation of a range of disciplines, from art and architecture to philosophy and ...

The Colosseum, Rome (left); Mycenaean gold on display at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (right). Are you looking for ways to broaden your knowledge, expand your outlook, and sharpen your ...

Classics students at Boston College have the unique opportunity to study abroad in Greece or in Italy through several programs, especially the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and ...

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Classics Department is again in AY 2025–26 able to offer a scholarship to support archaeological fieldwork. According to the terms of the gift, the ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

Andrew Sullivan weighs in on the mini-controversy over Limbaugh bashing Classical studies: But the main reason for a classical education is precisely its uselessness. True learning is practically ...

Explore the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome with a classical studies minor at Luther. Expand your intellectual toolkit. Learn from the past to help tackle problems facing the future. Dive deep into ...

The people of the classical world gave us the magnificent and deeply influential Latin and Greek languages, democracy, philosophy, atomism, our alphabet, tragedy, the form and concept of the republic, ...