Classics / Classical Studies

Read increasingly complex Latin texts — from grammar basics to Virgil, Cicero, and Ovid.

Progress from Greek alphabet and grammar to reading Homer, Plato, and Sophocles in the original.

Survey the political, military, and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome.

Write original Latin prose, mastering grammar, style, and rhetoric at an advanced level.

Write a substantial original research paper on a topic in classical literature, history, or culture.

Study Greek and Roman myths — gods, heroes, and creation stories — and their cultural meanings.

Read and analyze plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in their dramatic context.

Read Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Catullus in Latin, analyzing meter, style, and themes.

Study Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Epicureans — the philosophical foundations of Western thought.

Analyze Greek and Roman sculptures, paintings, temples, and urban planning in cultural context.

Study material remains — pottery, temples, inscriptions — to reconstruct ancient Greek and Roman life.