What is Classical Studies and why study it?

The people of the classical world gave us the magnificent and deeply influential
Latin and Greek languages, democracy, philosophy, our alphabet, tragedy, the
form and concept of the republic, building in concrete with arches, the West’s
first literature (Homer), and eventually underpinned the rise of Christianity.

How is this still relevant today?

 The civilizations of Greece and Rome continue to fascinate the

modern mind.

 They are both remote in time, and yet still close to us. This is partly
because we owe to the classical world so many of the values and
ideas which shape our society, literature and art, partly because
many of the important moral and political issues which continue to
exercise twenty-first century man were first addressed in the
ancient world.

 In exploring the ancients we learn something about ourselves as

well.
 You will learn how to read critically, think analytically, and
communicate articulately.