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Welcome to Classics, the study of the cultural output of ancient Greece and Rome and its worldwide reception.

 

Gustav Klimt's Sappho

Professor Marianne Hopman's class, Literatures of the Ancient World "Love Scripts: From Sappho to Taylor Swift" was featured in the Daily Northwestern. Click here to read more!

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Faculty Spotlight

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Assistant Professor Sarah Eisen (PhD Harvard University) joins our faculty this year. Click here to learn more.

Classicizing Chicago

 
From the late 1800s, Chicagoans from all walks of life and with widely varying measures of familiarity with the classical sources have found elements of the ancient past useful for making meaningful contributions to their own struggles and ventures. The Classicizing Chicago Project is building a digital archive of examples of this cultural mingling across time and space.

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Latest News

 
Congratulations to Nava Cohen (Classics Cluster/Comparative Literary Studies) on winning the Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2024-2025!
Professor Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago) led a workshop on "Revisiting August Wilson's Reading of Aristotle's 'Poetics'" on February 28.
Professor and Classics Department Chair, Sara Monoson, delivered a lecture at the The Department of Classical Studies at the Hebrew University.
Classics students and faculty attended the Wirtz Center's production of Antigone.
The Classics Undergraduate Advisory Board (CUAB) hosted a trivia night on November 19th.

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