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The Classics Department faculty is unusually large for the size of the school. With four permanent members and one Lilly Teaching Fellow, the department is one of the largest in the Great Lakes Colleges Association, even though Wabash is the smallest school in the GLCA. All faculty members are active in their fields outside of the classroom, publishing books and articles, giving talks at professional meetings, carrying on archaeological excavations in Greece and Jordan, travelling extensively in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the Near East.

The classics stand at the center of the Wabash curriculum. Not only do students take courses in Latin, Greek, and Classics, but other departments offer courses to supplement those offered by the department. These include ancient political theory, ancient Greek philosophy, and ancient rhetoric from the departments of Political Science, Philosophy, and Speech. Ancient history courses are taught by members of the Classics Department. Culture and Traditions, a required course for all Wabash sophomores, regularly includes study of the ancient Greeks.

"I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat." -Winston Churchill

The department has encouraged many students to travel in Italy and Greece in the summer. Foreign study and travel are also facilitated by Wabash's membership in the Stanford Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

All students are urged to study at least one semester in Italy or Greece. Prof. Leslie Day also has taken one or two student interns each summer to work on her excavation of a Greek Dark Age site in eastern Crete in Greece. This is one of only four full-scale digs allowed to American scholars by the Greek government.

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