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Welcome to Classics, the study of the cultural output of ancient Greece and Rome and its worldwide reception.

Read the 2025 Newsletter for recent news and programming updates.

Northwestern students on the Summer '25 program visiting a replica trireme.

Classics students visited the replica of the Athenian Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee! Read the full story here.

First Year Focus

Are you a first year student curious about Classics? Get oriented with our department and course offerings here.

Faculty Spotlight

Assistant Professor Sarah Eisen (PhD Harvard University) joins our faculty this year. Click here to learn more.

Classicizing Chicago

From the late 1800s, Chicagoans from all walks of life and with widely varying measures of familiarity with the classical sources have found elements of the ancient past useful for making meaningful contributions to their own struggles and ventures. The Classicizing Chicago Project is building a digital archive of examples of this cultural mingling across time and space.

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Latest News

In July 2025, the students in NU’s summer program Athens: Ancient Culture and Modern City visited the Olympias, a reconstructed ancient warship (trireme) at the Floating Naval Museum of Greece.

Professor Sarah Eisen delivered a paper at the Classical Association Conference held at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Congratulations to Professor Abbe Walker on her appointment as a Searle Fellow for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year by the Northwestern Office of the Provost and the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching.

We celebrated our graduating majors and minors on June 13. Congratulations to the Class of 2025!

The annual Classics Expo & Awards Ceremony was held on June 6. Congratulations to all of the presenters and award winners!

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