University of Maryland Classics Department

University of Maryland Classics Department As members of the Department of Classics, we pride ourselves on bringing the ancient world to life. We invite you to join our lively learning community!

Welcome to the Department of Classics! We are a department within the College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Maryland. Our subject embraces all aspects of the closely related cultures of ancient Greece and Rome: their languages, material culture, history, literature, religions, politics, and gender systems. We also study the reception of classical art and literature, including the ways

in which ancient works have been adapted, rethought, subverted, and emulated by creative souls in other cultures up to the present day. We welcome students from many academic backgrounds to our courses in Latin, ancient and modern Greek, and classical humanities. A major in Classics is ideal preparation for law school, medical school, and graduate study in a wide variety of fields. We invite you to explore our programs and to read about the interests of our faculty, students, and alumni.

We are so proud of our Class of '26 graduates! Congratulations and best of luck in all your future endeavors!
05/19/2026

We are so proud of our Class of '26 graduates! Congratulations and best of luck in all your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Charis Addai and Natalie Dean (pictured here with their proud advisors, Chiara Graf and Francisco Bar...
04/23/2026

Congratulations to Charis Addai and Natalie Dean (pictured here with their proud advisors, Chiara Graf and Francisco Barrenechea) on defending their MA theses! Charis explored the role of internal audiences in Seneca's Phaedra, and Natalie illuminated the role of cannibalism in the Iliad. Well done both!

Join us next Friday, May 1st for a talk by Dr. Alexandra Leewon Schultz, entitled "Apollonius the Bookworm and the Libra...
04/23/2026

Join us next Friday, May 1st for a talk by Dr. Alexandra Leewon Schultz, entitled "Apollonius the Bookworm and the Libraries of Alexandria." Dr. Schultz is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College and a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Her research centers on Greek literature, as well as Greek and Roman cultural and intellectual history.

Her talk will take place at 4 PM on Friday, May 1st in Key Hall, Room 0117. An abstract for the talk is below:

Apollonius the Bookworm and the Libraries of Alexandria
Though scholars have long questioned received truths about the Library of Alexandria, the notion of a singular, universal library of Greek literature is alive and well today. Not only does this legendary collection play an outsized role in studies of Alexandrian literature and scholarship. The Library also undergirds scholarly work on the canonization of Greek literature and the origins of philology, and is thus central to how Classics as a discipline has been formed around 'the canon' and an invented genealogy that goes back to the Alexandrian poet-scholars. Instead of debunking the familiar sources for the Great Library, this talk offers a novel account of the history and historiography of other libraries in Ptolemaic Alexandria. By pluralizing the history of Alexandrian libraries and documenting the tradition of writing about the "libraries of Alexandria" from classical antiquity to the end of the 19th century, I open up new directions for studying this celebrated cosmopolis.

Please join us on Friday, April 17th for an exciting lecture by Dr. Daniel Kapust entitled "Lucretius and Rousseau on Co...
04/02/2026

Please join us on Friday, April 17th for an exciting lecture by Dr. Daniel Kapust entitled "Lucretius and Rousseau on Compassion." This lecture is co-sponsored with  and open to the public.

Please join us on October 16th for the inaugural William and Sylvia Ge**er Latin Pedagogy Fund Lecture! We are honored t...
09/24/2025

Please join us on October 16th for the inaugural William and Sylvia Ge**er Latin Pedagogy Fund Lecture! We are honored to host Prof. Brett Mulligan, who will be discussing "What Digital Humanities Can Offer the Humanist: Data-Informed Approaches to the New AP Latin Curriculum."

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