Classics

About this course

Classics is one of the oldest and most demanding intellectual traditions in European education, concerned with the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome in all their complexity and richness. To study Classics is to engage directly with the Greek and Latin languages, to read the texts that shaped Western literature, philosophy, law, and political thought in the original, and to bring to bear the full range of historical, archaeological, and literary methods on civilisations that remain foundational to how the modern world understands itself. It is a discipline that demands rigour, creativity, and an unusual breadth of intellectual engagement. At the University of Oxford, this four-year full-time programme is among the most prestigious versions of the subject in the world. You will develop proficiency in both ancient Greek and Latin, reading authors across a wide range of genres from e

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