Related Concentrations
Early Cultures
The Program in Early Cultures allows the comparative study of the history, literatures, and religions of Mediterranean and South, East and West Asian antiquity (Rome, Greece, North Africa, Egypt, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Israel, Iran, Arabia, India, China). Faculty from a variety of academic units (Anthropology, Classics, Comparative Literature, Egyptology, History, History of Art and Architecture, Judaic Studies, Joukowski Institute of Archaeology, Philosophy, Religious Studies) offer courses relevant to Ancient Studies.
Late Antique Cultures
Late Antique Cultures focuses on the third through ninth centuries c.e., when ancient cultural forms were still in place but medieval cultures were beginning to take shape simultaneously. Organized to facilitate the study of human activity in all its variety, unrestricted by the conventional demarcations of classical and medieval studies, the concentration serves those students who are interested in the changing relations of the many kinds of cultural forms, social patterns, political and economic forms, and artistic and literary traditions in this transitional period.