There is no assessment more objective than a written exam in an ancient language. Such a test measures recall of and facility with a language that exists only on the printed page, one governed by a ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

Majors in this track focus on studying Latin and Greek languages and on reading classical literature in the original languages. Majors planning to pursue graduate work in Classics should enroll in as ...

In the mid 1970s, PM Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed Latinizing Greek letters and making the Greek language phonetic.

High school students from Montana, Idaho and Washington looked back thousands of years and found people grappling with the same problems we have today. The 110 students came from Helena, Spokane, and ...

WHY STUDY classical languages? For a long time the reason was clear: there wasn’t much else to read. Medieval Europe read and wrote in Latin, even as its spoken form had changed so much it had become ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s not the politics, it’s the Latin and Greek. For someone returning to Paris after years away, what is ...

Latin is a classical language and also the Indo-European Language. Earlier, it was spoken in the Tiber areas of Rome, but once the Roman Republic came into power, the language started to dominate: ...