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The conclusion to the sequence of introductory Greek classes, which completes students’ learning of the fundamentals of classical Greek and equips them to begin reading classical and New Testament Greek texts in the original language.

Koine Greek is a dialect of Greek spoken and written during the centuries following the conquests of Alexander, including during the Roman Empire.   It is of particular importance as the original language of the New Testament. This course introduces...

This course surveys Greek literature, history, art, thought, and culture from their beginnings, and the legacy of ancient Greek civilization in the West.  All readings are in English.

This course surveys the literature, history, art, thought, and culture of ancient Rome from their beginnings, and the legacy of Roman civilization in the West.  All readings are in English.

The mythology of ancient Greece makes up the most famous and influential body of myth and legend in world history.  This course examines these stories about the Greek gods and heroes as they appear in Greek and Roman literature and art, and may...

If brought to the present day, an educated Greek or Roman from much of the timespan of classical civilization would find the speech and self-presentation of a modern educated person shockingly amateurish.  Rhetoric was the art of public speaking, and...

If ancient Greek and Roman poetry is the most influential poetry in Western literary history, no genre within it is more influential than epic — a kind of poetry most associated with Homer and Virgil, but extending into some remarkably strange places...

Patristic Greek is the language of Christian Greek authors of the second through sixth centuries A.D., such as St. Athanasius, St. Basil of Caesarea, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, and St. John Chrysostom.  This course introduces students to patristic Gre...

Roman law is perhaps the single most lasting and important legacy of the Roman Empire, representing as it does the basis of civil law systems throughout the modern world, not to mention constituting an important influence on other legal systems such...

Few, if any, intellectual and cultural revolutions in world history can claim to be as consequential as the rise and eventual triumph of Christianity within the pagan Roman world.  This course examines how the new Christian thought and literature...