Welcome to the Classics Department at Duquesne University:

The Department of Classics seeks to prepare its students to live better in the modern world through an increased knowledge and understanding of the Greco-Roman classical world and its many legacies.

The program offers experience in the languages (Classical Latin and Classical Greek, occasionally Sanskrit), the literatures, the history and the archaeology, art, law, medicine, philosophy and politics of classical antiquity. An exposure to the ancient classical society offers --as no other single discipline does-- insights into the problems and issues which continue to face any society and every individual even today. From the impact of Latin and Greek on the language of science to the founding of literary traditions and to the sources of philosophic and scientific thought, the study of classical antiquity helps us to begin to know our world and ourselves.