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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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Professor Robert Gurval Receives Emeriti Service Award

Sean Brenner | May 12, 2025 Robert Gurval retired from active teaching in 2019, intending to teach in China and travel more. When the COVID-19 pandemic threw a...

Professor Kathryn Morgan to present “Plato and the Carnival of Genre” on April 25

On April 25, 2025, Professor Kathryn Morgan will be giving the keynote address at Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of...

Francesca Martelli | Latest book featured in Times Literary Supplement

Professor Francesca K. A. Martelli's latest book Souvenirs of Cicero: Shaping Memory in the Epistulae ad familiares was featured in the March 28, 2025 Times Literary Supplement. To...

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