Departmental Information
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Prof. Elizabeth Irwin
606 Hamilton
854-5684
ei42@columbia.edu
Departmental Administrator
Gerry Visco
854-7821
gwv1@columbia.edu
Departmental Office
617 Hamilton
854-3902
classics@columbia.edu
Departmental Web Site
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/classics/
| Professors
Kathy Eden (also English and Comparative Literature)
Helene P. Foley (Barnard)
Carmela V. Franklin
Suzanne Saïd
Deborah T. Steiner
Karen Van Dyck
Gareth D. Williams (chair)
James E. G. Zetzel
Associate Professors
Mark Buchan
Kristina Milnor (Barnard)
Katharina Volk
Nancy Worman (Barnard)
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Assistant Professors
Vangelis Calotychos
Elizabeth Irwin
Julia Lougavaya
Lecturers
Annelies Wouters
Elizabeth Scharffenberger
Elena Tzelepis
On Leave
Profs. Calotychos, Foley, Steiner, and
Worman for the academic year
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The program of the department
has as its twin aims the linguistic mastery of Greek and Latin and the understanding of classical literature and its background. Careful study of the language occupies the largest part of the first-year courses and is not omitted in the more advanced courses. Although literature becomes the chief subject only in the advanced courses, important authors like Homer, Plato, and Vergil are studied as literary texts already in the intermediate courses. A wide variety of courses are offered in translation.
Through a joint program with Barnard the department offers a broad range of subjects. The department annually offers four advanced courses in each language (at the 3000 or 4000 level), the content of which changes each year in order to provide a curricular range and to balance authors and genres over a two-year period. Opportunities for individual projects of reading and research are available. Students are permitted to take graduate courses as well if they are sufficiently prepared. They can also supplement their studies within the department by work in other departments, such as Art History and Archaeology, History, Philosophy, and the other departments of languages and literature.
It is not necessary to have previously studied either language in order to major in it. A student starting Greek or Latin at Columbia can meet all the requirements of a major within an ordinary undergraduate program.
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