The Department of Classical Studies provides undergraduate and graduate programs in “all aspects of the broad field of Classical Studies”: languages, literature, history, archaeology, reception studies, and cultural studies. The richness of the department’s offerings are deepened further through the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World and the Ancient History graduate programs and its intersection with programs offered through the departments of Religious Studies, English, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Linguistics, Italian Studies, History of Art, and through the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Teaching and research interests fall into the areas of poetry and poetics; culture; political, social and intellectual history; race and ethnicity in the ancient world; environmental impacts on culture and society; translation studies; ancient historiography; material culture; reception studies; economics; and status.
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