Department of Classics - Northwestern University

Our Program and Curriculum

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

Read the 2025 Newsletter for recent news and programming updates.

Northwestern students on the Summer '25 program visiting a replica trireme.

Classics students visited the replica of the Athenian Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee! Read the full story here.

First Year Focus

Are you a first year student curious about Classics? Get oriented with our department and course offerings here.

Faculty Spotlight

The department welcomes back Sergey Ivanov, who will be serving a three year term as Visiting Professor teaching courses in Classics, History, Religious Studies, and Slavic Languages and Literatures.

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.