Classical Studies encompasses all the social, material, and intellectual culture of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, as they can be studied both in the original languages and in English. The ...

Some books about Greco-Roman antiquity feel like literary versions of the guided bus tours of Athens and Rome that groan eternally down the narrow streets, making dutiful and rapid stops at famous ...

The traditional view of Shakespeare was that he knew very little about classical literature. Ben Jonson, his fellow playwright, famously wrote that his friend had "small Latin and less Greek." ...

The Department of Classics offers courses in language and literature, ancient history, art and archaeology, and philosophy within several programs of study. CU Classics ranks among the most vibrant ...

There are any number of reasons why we read, and reread, the literature of antiquity. First of all, its poems, plays, philosophical dialogues and, yes, novels (Lucian’s “A True Story,” Petronius’s ...

THIS volume gives a general survey of the science of classical antiquity, laying special stress on the mathematical and physical aspects. It opens with an account of the Ionian natural philosophy, ...