Summer Classics at Harvard University

May 5, 2016
Summer Classics at Harvard University

The Department of the Classics offers a variety of courses in the languages and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome. Explore Harvard’s peerless libraries and scholarly resources as you deepen your knowledge of classical antiquity. Cambridge and the vibrant Boston area, with its museums, cultural events and attractive recreational areas, also have much to offer for students’ leisure time.

The Department will offer five courses this summer, including intensive Beginning Greek and Latin, courses on Homer’s Iliad and Tacitus’ Annals in their original languages for students who already have some experience reading and translating ancient Greek or Latin, and a course in translation on Virgil’s Aeneid and its tradition in later literatures (all materials in English).

Get one of the languages well underway, extend and enrich your skills in one or both of the languages, or combine the Homeric Iliad or the Annals of Tacitus, both in the original, with the course in translation on Virgil and the later epic tradition.

Beginning Greek (8 credits)

Beginning Latin (8 credits)

The Iliad (4 credits)

Tacitus on Tiberius and the Roman Empire (4 credits)

Virgil’s Aeneid and the Epic Tradition (4 credits)