Schools for Classics and/or Ancient History

exultationsy
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:55:34 +0000

As somebody at Harvard right this instant, I agree that it would be hard for OP to do very much better than our classics department for undergrad: beyond Dench and Nagy, I’d also point to Thomas and Tarrant and Coleman (don’t know about her research reputation, but she’s a wonderful teacher) and Krebs (who is new, but a rising star). On the other hand, there are fewer “names” on the Greek side, at least partly because there are fewer students of Greek. I’m not sure I can name someplace that would be a whole lot better in Greek, but that would be something to consider for OP, who likes Greek better than Latin.

I’ve heard Princeton’s Classics-classics is better than UChicago’s, but UChicago’s ancient Near Eastern department makes me jealous. I didn’t go to UChicago’s prefrosh weekend, because I’d decided by that point and going “for fun” seemed dumb, but…oh I wish I had had a chance to meet Robert Ritner, among others! He is a rock star. (And I’m a nerd.) And their Oriental Institute’s library is one of the most beautiful interior spaces I’ve ever seen… sigh Basically, UChicago’s the only institution of higher learning that I do not attend about features of which I will still, on occasion, wax rhapsodic.

Brown has Pucci, which is…that’s really all I know about their classics department, but that’s at least one extremely good professor.

I’m vaguely recalling that Georgetown has a good classics program? (And then you get to live in Georgetown: excellent feature!) Swarthmore, I think, is also very good.

BU has not insubstantial merit scholarships for students who are very good at Latin or Greek:
[url=http://www.bu.edu/classics/undergraduate/scholarships/]Scholarships Classical Studies | Boston University/url