The Classics Curriculum

Classical Studies at Williams include a broad range of courses in the Greek and Latin languages and in Classical Civilization, including the Greco-Roman culture in which rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity developed. Courses in Greek and Latin enable students to increase their linguistic facility as they learn about important authors, subjects, and periods and develop a variety of methodological skills, especially literary and historical. Classical studies at Williams include a broad range of courses that presuppose no knowledge of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew and provide introductory surveys of the literature, history, mythology, art, archaeology, religion and philosophy of Greece, Rome, and the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, as well as opportunities for more advanced or specialized study. All of the offerings in Classics challenge students both to confront the foreignness of these ancient cultures and to explore their profound connections with our own.

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