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Welcome to the Department of Classics
at the University of Cincinnati.

The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is one of the most active centers for the study of Bronze Age and Classical antiquity in the United States. The twelve full-time faculty members cover all aspects of archaeology, ancient history, and Classical philology, and usually thirty-five graduate students are in residence. The Department includes the U.S. offices of l'Année Philologique, the comprehensive bibliographic database for Classical philology, and edits an international journal, the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, as well as Nestor, a bibliographic resource for Bronze Age archaeology. The heart of the Department is the Burnam Classics Library, one of the world's most comprehensive libraries for advanced research in Classics (currently ca. 230,000 volumes). The Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars program allows scholars to reside in the Department every year and to use the extensive resources of the Burnam Classics Library, and the Lecture Program annually brings an additional 40-50 scholars to Cincinnati. Fieldwork is currently being conducted in Albania, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Turkey.