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Welcome to Classics at the University of Cape Town. This section of the School of Languages and Literatures is home to a wide range of courses in ancient cultural studies and language.

The courses offered by the Section fall into two main categories: Greek and Latin Language courses and Classical Culture courses.

Greek and Latin language classes begin with an intensive first year course for those who have never studied the language before. Students who have already matriculated in Greek or Latin will begin at second year level.

The Classical Culture courses, dealing with Mediterranean, especially Greek and Roman, History, Culture, Mythology and Literature, and North Africa, require no knowledge of Greek or Latin. Although the Culture Courses are mostly centered on the Mediterranean there are courses dealing with North Africa.

news:

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On Saturday, 26 March Prof. Stephen Harrison (Oxford) will address the Society on the subject of: 'History, Politics and Virgil's Aeneid' Venue: Arts Building, Stellenbosch University Time: 10.30 for 11 am

Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature at Corpus Christi College Oxford, will be visiting UCT during the first semester of 2011. His main research and teaching interests are in Latin literature and its reception, especially in literature in English of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

events:

28th BIENNIAL CASA CONFERENCE:
Rhodes University (First Call for Papers)
Date: 28 - 30 June 2011