Classics (4 years)

About this course

Classics at Cambridge is the study of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in their full richness: their languages, literatures, histories, philosophies, art, and archaeology. It is one of the oldest of all university subjects and one of the most intellectually demanding, requiring you to engage with primary texts in Latin and Greek, to think across the full breadth of ancient culture, and to bring to bear the methodological resources of history, philosophy, literary criticism, and material culture studies. The ancient world is the foundation on which European intellectual and cultural life was built, and studying it directly in the original languages is a distinctive and irreplaceable experience. The four-year course at Cambridge is designed for students who have little or no experience of Latin. If you come without A-level Latin or equivalent, the first year brings your language skills

Where its graduates go

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• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →

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