Bachelors in Classics-English

The Classics-English major provides the possibility for students to enhance their study of English and the Classics by learning the language(s) that most deeply influenced English (over 60 percent is either Latin or Greek), and the literary subject matter that is the primary material from which later centuries in the West created their literature. For example, reading the Odyssey in Greek cannot help but deepen one s knowledge and appreciation of Joyce s Ulysses, learning mythology, such as Ovid s Metamorphoses in Latin, is of paramount importance in understanding Shakespeare and many other authors.