Phillips Exeter Academy

Classical Languages

Classics Club

Go beyond the table and implement your classical language training around campus and beyond through the Kirkland Society.

Classical Diploma

See how you’ll work through the program and course materials. Wear a crown of laurels at graduation by pursuing advanced study in Latin and Greek.

4 International Programs

Engage with the ancient past and experience life abroad through travel opportunities to Rome, Italy, or Greece.

Latin Study Room

A classroom that combines neoclassical beauty and state-of-the-art technology, this venue holds classes, seminars, club meetings and quiet study.

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GRK110

Elementary Greek

This sequence of courses introduces students to the study of ancient Greek, specifically the Attic dialect. No prior knowledge of Greek, Latin, or another inflected language is assumed.

 

LAT310

Cicero

In this course, students will read Cicero’s First Oration Against Catiline and discover how the consul Cicero used his rhetorical talents. 

 

GRK621

Greek Old Comedy 

This course offers a reading of comedies by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. Irreverent, incisive and entertaining, the comedies of Aristophanes helped lay the foundations of modern political satire.

Sally W. Morris
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Chair of the Department of Classical Languages

Nicholas F. Unger
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Instructor in Classical Languages

Paul B. Langford
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Instructor in Classical Languages, George Shattuck Morison Professor of Latin

Visiting Scholars Program

The Department of Classical Languages invites classical scholars to campus each year with the goal of exposing Exeter students to college-level research in such fields as philology, linguistics, papyrology, history and archaeology. Visiting scholars spend a week teaching four lunch seminars focused on a single theme and delivers one lecture open to the public.

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