Classical Philology (Ancient Greek and Latin; Ancient Greek and Roman Literature)

Programme description

The bachelor’s programme ‘Classical Philology (Ancient Greek and Latin; Ancient Greek and Roman Literature) is designed to study a set of academic disciplines based on reading and interpreting the whole variety of texts in Ancient Greek and Latin. They are aimed at studying: these languages and literature; the monuments themselves that preserve these texts; as well as those aspects of culture and history of the Ancient world that require philological analysis of the sources
Students acquire knowledge of: linguistics (historical grammar, lexicology, dialectology); the history of literature (metrics, stylistics, textual criticism); palaeography; epigraphy and papyrology; and other disciplines that focus on classical studies (political history, the history of law, religion, science, philosophy, and art) to the extent that they draw on textual analysis

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Our advantages

The programme is designed to train unique specialists who have skills in the translation and interpretation of texts written in ancient Greek and Latin.
The students acquire the fundamentals of writing ancient Greek and Latin epitaphs, and historical grammar.
The students learn the history of ancient Greek and Roman literature: the emergence, formation and development of the main genres; ideological and artistic features of the literatures. They gain a concept of traditional and modern views on the course of the literary process.
The students have a view of the stages of development and features of ancient art.

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