Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Focuses on the literary culture of the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the Greek and Latin languages and literatures and their development prior to the fall of the Roman Empire.
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- Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- Focuses on the literary culture of the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the Greek and Latin languages and literatures and their development prior to the fall of the Roman Empire.
- Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature
- Focuses on the Greek language and literature from its origins through the fall of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire, as a secular and/or theological subject. Covers philology, Attic and Hellenistic dialects, Koine (Biblical) Greek, and Medieval or Byzantine Greek.
- Latin Language and Literature
- Focuses on the Latin language and literature from its origins through its decline and its current ecclesiastical usage, as a secular and/or theological subject. Covers philology, related Italic dialects, Late Roman and Medieval Latin, and modern Church Latin.
- Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Classics and classical languages, literatures, and linguistics not listed above.
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