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Popular Pages

• 2012-13 Course Schedule
• CLA 380-03 "Medea on the Jersey Shore" (1 cr)
• Classics Major guide
• Classics Minor guide

 

Upcoming Events

• July 21, 2012
  Heritage Theatre: Euripides' Medea, a new translation by Diane Rayor
• August 15, 2012
  Summer Greek and Latin, May-August 2012

 

News

• May 14, 2012
  Dylan Moore '12 on Study Abroad in Rome
• April 18, 2012
  "Ancient Greeks / Modern Lives" at the Grand Rapids Public Library
• April 16, 2012
  Nicholas Maki awarded GVSU Niemeyer Award
• April 4, 2012
  Jonathan Langerak awarded CAMWS Stewart Scholarship
• February 7, 2012
  GVNow - Grand Valley Classics professor to lead local NEH program
• See all news items

 

Faculty Publications

The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity
Edited by Andrew Cain and Noel Lenski, with a contribution by Charles Pazdernik

 

Classics is the study of ancient Greece and Rome - among the world’s most exciting, important, and influential civilizations.

The program in Classics spans the many different aspects of the Greek and Roman world - its languages and literatures, its art and archaeology, its history, its religious and philosophical traditions, its social and legal forms - from the Bronze Age to the period of the late Roman Empire and early Christianity.

The cultural riches of classical civilization are as rewarding as anything the liberal arts has to offer, but the value of Classics has another dimension as well.

Classics examines the artistic, intellectual, and social traditions that have shaped the Western world over the course of a hundred generations of human history. It provides an informed and critical perspective on many of the ideas, values, and institutions that continue to shape the world in which we live today.

The Department of Classics is a unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and participates in the interdepartmental Minor in Archaeology. Classics faculty hold joint appointments in the Meijer Honors College and contribute to other programs. 

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