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The Classical Studies Program concentrates with the languages of the Greco-Roman world, and
the thought, as expressed in literature (and art), from Homer in 800 BC to St. Augustine in 400 AD,
dealing with a full range of literary genres: epic, tragedy, comedy, lyric, satire, elegy, epigram, oratory, rhetorical theory, history, philosophical dialogue (or treatise), didactic poetry and prose, bucolic poetry, epistolography, funerary (and other) inscriptions.
We make it a point to provide courses relevant to students’ concerns in teaching, stressing the technical side of the Latin language and examining authors, like Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, and Cicero, that figure in the Advanced Placement Syllabus.
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Our Undergraduate Program
consists of a major and minor in Classics, with course studies in Latin and Greek, while our
Graduate Program offers an
M.A. in Classical Studies as well as the opportunity to obtain a combination
Five-Year B.A./M.A. in Classical Studies.
News & Events
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Program.
- Academic Calendars
- With sadness we report the death of John M. Hunt, Professor of
Classical Studies, on October 8, 2008.
A native of the area, John Hunt took his Ph.D. in Classics from Bryn
Mawr College and began teaching at Villanova in 1970. He was appointed
to the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1978,
but returned to Villanova in 1980, where he remained for the rest of his
career. He was appointed Professor in 1991, and served for several years
as Chair of the Department of Classical Studies. Author of over sixty
publications, Dr. Hunt was a member of the editorial board of Classical
Philology. John Hunt taught Latin to a host of devoted students, many of
whom, in turn, sent their own students to study with him at Villanova.
He was known for taking personal interest in his students’ welfare and
for his generous care for his staff and co-workers.
He is survived by his sister, Jacqueline L. Hunt of Wayne. Services will
be private.
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Attention Undergraduate Students! Obtain a Master's Degree in 5 years with
the B.A./M.A. program in
Classical Studies.
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