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Department of Classics
Classics is the study of the ancient Greek and Roman world, its languages, its cultures, and their impact on later cultural traditions.
Our evolving understanding of these concepts (e.g. "ancient," “culture,” “Roman”) gives our discipline dynamism, while a common body of texts function as its shared center. Classics is also interested in how later peoples understood and transformed this inheritance, generating the rich Classical tradition in literature and the other arts.
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The comparative literature major and classics minor returned to Haverford to share her scholarly and creative work through an interactive puppet-making experience and lecture.
In this class led by Associate Professor and Chair of Classics Matthew Farmer, students put their knowledge of Greek to use exploring interpretive questions in literature and cultural history.
Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan has received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH). The grant will fund his continuing work on web applications designed to help educators attain greater awareness of the match between reader knowledge and textual difficulty when assigning Latin and ancient Greek texts.
The classics major is spending the summer at Stanford to assist emerging startups at StartX.
This classics course explores the sexual culture of ancient Greece with a focus on primary materials.
At once an intermediate Latin course and an introduction to the study of Latin literature and culture, this classics class investigates who the Romans were by studying how they described friendship and their friends, and those enemies who resisted, betrayed, and bedeviled them.
Maggie Steinberg (‘19) has won a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Scholarship, which will allow Maggie to learn ancient Greek this summer at CUNY’s Latin/Greek Institute.
Florencia Foxley ‘13 has been awarded the James Rignall Wheeler Fellowship, which will her to conduct research for a year in Greece.
The Classics Department is delighted to announce this year's winners of the Departmental Classics Prizes.
Professor Farmer joins us from the University of Missouri