T he Classics division offers three undergraduate degrees. Students graduating in each of these programs will be very well prepared for further study in the respective fields. In the Latin language courses, the second year is comprised of literature complemented with exercises to ensure fluency in both reading and writing. S uch authors as Catullus, Tacitus, Livy, Vergil, Lucretius, Ovid, Cicero and Horace have been read in the past three years in Latin.
Greek authors are just as varied.
In recent semesters Homer, Euripides, Xenophon, Thucydides, Plato and Sophocles have been read and studied. In reading these authors, the student becomes fluent in the languages and cultures of Greece and Rome.