It’s glamor-baiting, really, and if we want to show the viability of Classics we should really consider including successful people beyond celebrities. With luck, these graduation quotes can provide a little inspiration that your graduate may take to heart. Have recently read ” The Mighty Dead”-aka “Why Homer Matters”, and am cruising at a leisurely pace through ” The Oxford handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean”. I'm Joshua Baldwin and I'm Lead Designer at Coldwood Interactive, a video game studio in northern Sweden.

Psychologist, famous for developing psychoanalysis, excelled in his study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew at Leopoldstädter Kommunal-Realgymnasium Thomas Jefferson 3 rd President of the United States, studied Greek while a student at the College of William and Mary and avid reader of Roman literature, went on to establish the University of Virginia, where students were encouraged to study Classics For today's classics graduates, Nietzsche's famous quote may be particularly relevant. Quotes come from brilliant men and women, some who are still very much alive and some who have passed, but all who have gifted us with their legacies of wit and wisdom. Read more about The Cambridge Greek Play and the history behind it. Only two universities in this year’s classics & ancient history ranking are from outside Europe, the US and Canada. Notre Dame’s Department of Classics opens up the life of the mind and spirit through the study of language, philosophy, law, religious traditions, history, and culture of the ancient Mediterranean world.

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Get to know more about the life of the Cambridge Classics Faculty by reading the Faculty Newsletters. And while that is a good start, the notion of listing famous Classics majors seems a bit wrong-headed. Top universities for classics & ancient history elsewhere in the world. Classics, in short, has opened some surprising doors. Nor am I famous (although you might say I’m well known in small circles) I’m dipping back into Classics for the first time in fifty years. Joshua Baldwin, graduated 2013; now a Lead Game Designer. The first of these is Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) which is ranked 39 th and is the sole Latin American university included. We can do this, perhaps, by appealing to people’s career aspirations and showing that Classics is a road others have taken to get there.