Overview

Key facts:

• The Classics programme is offered at the University Of Ibadan.

• The Department has thus continued to play a valuable role in the work of the Faculty. Its courses remain basically directed to the study of the civilization of the Greeks and Romans, two of the great civilizations of history, and ones which have affected developments in many parts of the world, including Africa. 
• Students majoring in Classics now take two compulsory courses on the Ancient History and Archaeology of North and North-East Africa, while at the same time obtaining inter alia, first-hand acquaintance with the great philosophers of antiquity notably Plato and Aristotle, dramatists such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the historical masterpieces of Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy and Tacitus, the oratory scholarship and humanism of Cicero and the poetic genius of Homer, Virgil and Horace, all of whom continue to exert a salutary influence on modern thought and letters.