Members of the Classics Department have been excavating at Coriglia near Orvieto in Central Italy since 2006. Unfortunately, COVID has temporarily interrupted our progress.
More information about the history of our sites and our discoveries
Why Classics?
- It’s a good marketing tool. You will stand out among other applicants because of the uniqueness and caché of your major.
- A degree in Classics demonstrates that you have language abilities, reasoning abilities and the capacity to understand a world that is not your own.
- Classics majors score higher on the GRE and LSAT
- Latin and Greek provide the tools to intimately engage the foundations of western civilization and to recognize patterns of humanity in the past that link to the present.
- A major in Classics allows you to embrace your originality, love what you study, follow your bliss.
- People, once they realize that you can read Greek and Latin, will think you are smarter than you actually are.