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The UCLA Department of Classics is one of three Humanities departments at UCLA ranked in the top ten nationally in the last National Research Council report. Classics forms the foundation for the Humanities. Philology, philosophy, government (including democracy), the theater, linguistics, archaeology, literary theory and many other fields have their origins in the Classics. The UCLA Department of Classics has a robust undergraduate and graduate program. Each year we teach an average of 2,000 undergraduate students various aspects of Greek and Roman culture, literature, philology, archaeology, and history. We have a dedicated and diverse faculty of scholars and teachers,...

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News

  1. Professor Hannah Čulík-Baird’s new review of Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity by Sarah F. Derbew

    Professor Hannah Čulík-Baird's new review of Sarah F. Derbew's Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (2022), has been published today. Sarah Derbew’s Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (2022) is a...

  2. The Latest Edition of the Classics Department Newsletter is available now

    The UCLA Department of Classics is pleased to announce the Summer 2023 Edition of the Newsletter.  In it you'll get the latest news on faculty and graduate...

  3. Professor Francesca Martelli and Professor Giulia Sissa’s New Book Available Now

    Congratulations to Professor Francesca Martelli and Professor Giulia Sissa on the publication of their new book entitled Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination. This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as...

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