Studying classics provides a window into our shared cultural heritage and deepens our understanding of society. There’s also the opportunity for making connections between your own life, interests and studies.
Classics is one of the few subjects that can help you understand how modern society is shaped, from technology to politics. Furthermore, it may be studied for personal enrichment and enjoyment or simply as part of an investigation into other societies and cultures.
It is an immersion in ancient culture without which we would not know ourselves today. It exposes students to two thousand years of profound moments in world history, including innovative philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, architectural marvels such as Rome’s Pantheon and Palatine Hill, influential empires including Assyria’s Ninevah with its Ziggurat; crucial discoveries, like paper; world religions such as Mithraism (Zoroastrianism); or periods such as classical antiquity.
Through its connections to almost every point of Western literary and historical study, the ancient world offers an excellent but by no means the only basis upon which to explore all disciplines in humanistic studies.