Welcome to the home page of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. The Department has long been at the forefront of graduate and undergraduate education in Classics, offering both general instruction and specialized training in Greek and Latin language, literature and culture, Medieval Latin, and Byzantine and Modern Greek. The Department, internationally renowned, represents a broad variety of fields and approaches. Several members of the faculty have joint appointments with other departments, including Comparative Literature, History, History of Art and Architecture, Linguistics, and Philosophy.

The Department is housed in Boylston Hall, next to Widener Library, which contains the largest open-stack collection in the world. The Smyth Classical Library also has a separate collection of some 9000 volumes, and the Sackler Museum contains an excellent collection of antiquities. The Department is truly international in profile, with current and recent graduate students from many countries in eastern and western Europe, and from New Zealand and South Africa, as well as the US and Canada.