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Office: Humanities Center, Room 322A
Telephone: 410‑617‑2326
Website: www.loyola.edu/academics/classics

Chair: Martha C. Taylor, Professor

Professors: Robert S. Miola; Martha C. Taylor; Joseph J. Walsh
Associate Professors: Thomas D. McCreight
Lecturer: Laura L. Garofalo

The department offers a Major in Classics (Latin and Greek) or Classical Civilization, as well as a Minor in Classical Civilization. In order to understand themselves and the modern world, undergraduates enrolled in departmental offerings study closely the minds of ancient Rome and Greece through their languages, literature, and culture.

Programs

• Classical Civilization, BA
• Classics, BA

• Classical Civilization Minor

Courses

• CL 090 - Classics Internship
• CL 101 - Etymology: Greek and Latin Roots of English Vocabulary
• CL 205 - Cruelty and Violence: Sport and Athletics in the Ancient World
• CL 211 - Classical Mythology
• CL 212 - The Classical Epics
• CL 213 - Greek Drama
• CL 214 - The Ancient Novel
• CL 218 - The Golden Age of Rome
• CL 220 - The Ancient World: Special Topics
• CL 224 - The Gospels and the Earliest Churches
• CL 225 - Biographical Tales of the Bible
• CL 226 - Women in the Christian Tradition
• CL 229 - Images of God in Scripture
• CL 241 - Survey of Art: Paleolithic to Gothic
• CL 246 - Who is Jesus?
• CL 250 - Clash of the Titans: Ancient versus Modern Worlds
• CL 270 - Greece and Rome on Film
• CL 291 - The Gladiator
• CL 292 - Race, Conquest, and Identity in Ancient North Africa
• CL 300 - Death of the Roman Republic
• CL 301 - The Church and the Roman Empire
• CL 302 - City of Rome
• CL 303 - Ethics: Ancient, Modern, and Christian Approaches to Ethics
• CL 307 - Peace and War in Ancient Rome
• CL 308 - Art of Ancient Greece
• CL 309 - Art of Ancient Rome
• CL 312 - History of Ancient Greece
• CL 313 - History of Christmas
• CL 314 - History of the Roman Empire
• CL 320 - Hellenistic History
• CL 322 - Gladiators and Roman Spectacles
• CL 324 - Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World
• CL 326 - The Golden Age of Athens
• CL 327 - Volcanoes, Fire, and Flood: Disasters of Ancient Rome
• CL 328 - Soldiers, Land, and Population Transferrals
• CL 329 - Women in Greece and Rome
• CL 334 - Roman Private Life
• CL 335 - An Introduction to the Theology of Saint Augustine
• CL 337 - The Multicultural Roman Empire
• CL 339 - The Fall of Two Empires: Rome and Byzantium
• CL 340 - Biblical Hebrew I
• CL 341 - Biblical Hebrew II
• CL 342 - Biblical Hebrew III
• CL 343 - Biblical Hebrew IV
• CL 346 - Disputing the Bible
• CL 347 - Jesus and the Gospels
• CL 350 - Introduction to European Culture
• CL 355 - Saint Paul and His Writings
• CL 356 - Genesis: Exploring the Bible's First Book
• CL 358 - Ancient Philosophy
• CL 359 - The Presocratics
• CL 360 - Independent Study: Classical Civilization
• CL 362 - Special Topics in Classics
• CL 366 - Studies in Plato
• CL 367 - Plato's Republic
• CL 368 - Introduction to Aristotle
• CL 380 - Platonic Political Philosophy
• CL 381 - Aristotelian Political Philosophy
• CL 388 - Socratic Political Philosophy
• CL 405 - Aristotelian Ethics
• CL 420 - Homer and History
• CL 421 - Caesar and Augustus
• CL 450 - Senior Honors Thesis

• GK 101 - Introductory Greek I
• GK 102 - Introductory Greek II
• GK 103 - Intermediate Greek
• GK 104 - Greek Literature
• GK 161 - Comprehensive Beginning Greek
• GK 301 - Advanced Greek I
• GK 302 - Advanced Greek II
• GK 303 - Selected Readings in Greek I
• GK 304 - Selected Readings in Greek II
• GK 305 - Selected Readings in Greek III
• GK 310 - Plato
• GK 311 - Greek Tragedy: Euripides
• GK 312 - Greek Tragedy: Sophocles
• GK 323 - Greek Historians
• GK 325 - Herodotus
• GK 330 - Hesiod
• GK 360 - Independent Study: Greek

• LT 101 - Introductory Latin I
• LT 102 - Introductory Latin II
• LT 103 - Intermediate Latin
• LT 104 - Latin Golden Age Prose and Poetry
• LT 161 - Comprehensive Beginning Latin
• LT 200 - Latin Sight Reading
• LT 300 - Latin Prose Composition
• LT 301 - Advanced Latin
• LT 308 - Vergil: Aeneid
• LT 310 - Roman Tragedy
• LT 311 - Cicero
• LT 315 - Tacitus and Suetonius
• LT 320 - Livy
• LT 325 - Cicero's Speeches
• LT 330 - Roman Historians
• LT 333 - Sallust
• LT 334 - Roman Lyric
• LT 340 - Roman Comedy
• LT 344 - Horace
• LT 350 - Readings in Medieval Latin I
• LT 351 - Readings in Medieval Latin II

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