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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 (emeritus); Martha C. Taylor; Joseph J. Walsh
Associate Professor: Thomas D. McCreight
Assistant Teaching Professor: Aaron Palmore

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 201 - The Construction of Male and Female in Greece and Rome
• CL 205 - Gladiators and Olympians
• CL 210 - Medical Terminology
• 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 223 - History and Storytelling in the Bible
• CL 226 - Women in the Christian Tradition
• CL 227 - Commenting on Scripture from Philo to Facebook
• CL 228 - Peace and War in Ancient Rome
• CL 229 - Images of God in Scripture
• CL 232 - Food, Hunger, and the Bible
• CL 241 - Western Art: Paleolithic to Gothic
• CL 246 - Who is Jesus?
• CL 253 - Death of the Roman Republic
• CL 254 - History of Christmas
• CL 256 - Gladiators and Roman Spectacles
• CL 257 - The Golden Age of Athens
• CL 258 - Volcanoes, Fire, and Flood: Disasters of Ancient Rome
• CL 259 - Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome
• CL 260 - Roman Private Life
• CL 261 - The Multicultural Roman Empire
• CL 270 - Greece and Rome on Film
• CL 275 - History of Ancient Greece
• CL 291 - The Gladiator
• CL 292 - Race, Conquest, and Identity in Ancient North Africa
• CL 303 - Ethics: Ancient, Modern, and Christian Approaches to Ethics
• CL 318 - Parthenon to Pantheon: Greek and Roman Art
• CL 324 - Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World
• CL 335 - An Introduction to the Theology of Saint Augustine
• CL 340 - Biblical Hebrew I
• CL 341 - Biblical Hebrew II
• CL 342 - Biblical Hebrew III
• CL 343 - Biblical Hebrew IV
• CL 347 - Jesus and the Gospels
• CL 350 - Prophets and Peacemakers
• CL 353 - Special Topics in the Gospels
• CL 366 - Studies in Plato
• CL 380 - Platonic Political Philosophy
• CL 381 - Aristotelian Political Philosophy
• CL 388 - Socratic Political Philosophy
• CL 390 - The Political Challenge of Socrates
• CL 450 - Senior Honors Thesis

• CM 304 - Business Journalism

• GK 101 - Introductory Greek I
• GK 102 - Introductory Greek II
• GK 103 - Intermediate Greek
• GK 104 - Greek Literature
• GK 301 - Advanced Greek I
• GK 302 - Advanced Greek II
• GK 303 - Selected Readings in Greek I
• GK 305 - Selected Readings in Greek III
• GK 312 - Greek Tragedy: Sophocles
• 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 300 - Latin Prose Composition
• LT 310 - Roman Tragedy
• LT 311 - Cicero on Friendship
• LT 315 - Tacitus and Suetonius
• LT 333 - Sallust
• LT 334 - Roman Lyric
• LT 340 - Roman Comedy
• LT 350 - Pastoral Poetry
• LT 354 - Petronius
• LT 355 - Petronius and Apuleius
• LT 356 - Apuleius
• LT 360 - Independent Study: Latin
• LT 375 - Latin Elegy
• LT 380 - Ovid

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