Classics Department
The Department of Classics at Furman offers courses in the languages and cultures of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. The department offers majors in Greek and Latin and participates in the Greek and Roman Studies concentration.
Erin Lyttle at the walls of Pergamum, the
great center of learning and culture during the
2nd century CE.
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The ancient world is fascinating, and the languages of Greece and Rome are beautiful and difficult. The students who study Classics are, consequently, among the top scholars at Furman; they consistently earn top scores on such pre-graduate and professional exams as the GRE (for graduate school), the MCAT (for medical school), and the LSAT (for law school). And all our students are forever set apart from the crowd by their study of the Greek and Roman world.
Greek and Roman Studies refer to those disciplines that study the culture, civilization and heritage of Greece and Rome, from roughly the Bronze Age (3000-1000 BCE) to the fifth century CE, and of those parts of the Mediterranean basin, Europe, Africa and Asia where these ancient civilizations either originated or spread. It includes disciplines that deal with ideas and themes that originated in the classical world and profoundly influenced later thinkers and institutions.
Please join us in a tradition of learning and scholarship extending back over three millennia!