Classics embraces the study of Greek and Latin language, literature, history, and culture.
The discipline surveys a broad expanse of time, from the 3d millennium B.C.E. to the Middle Ages. Philologists, historians, archaeologists, art historians, and literary critics all find in Classics rich and diverse fields for research. Classics thrives on the enrichment created by diverse perspectives, and in response to new generations of students and scholars, the processes of reflection and redefinition are ongoing. The Greek and Roman worlds were in contact with and composed of diverse cultures. The study of Greek and Latin puts at the student's disposal the linguistic tools for reading sources that provide historical and anthropological studies of other ancient cultures, including Africa, India, China, and the Near East.