<p>Does anyone have a recommendation for a bs with a strong classics dept, and maybe out of the box literature study for kids who have done a lot in these areas? </p>
<p>thank you- </p>
<p>RL</p>
<p>Exeter, Groton, and Kent all offer advanced classes in both Latin and Greek. These were the first to come to mind. I’m sure there are more that I just don’t know about.</p>
<p>Thanks, Neato. DD was thinking she’d be more comfortable at a smallish school, but we will take a look at these. I don’t know anything about Kent yet.</p>
<p>Maybe have a look at Portsmouth Abbey School?</p>
<p>Have a look at Westover, too.</p>
<p>The Abbey sounds nice, but we prefer a secular institution or one where religion is focused on less. </p>
<p>Westover is already on her list. 
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<p>thank you!</p>
<p>Hotchkiss. The teachers for classics are amazing here. I am taking latin.</p>
<p>Thank you. I see that they do have a classics club.</p>
<p>Nathan Costa, Mary Kelly, Chris Childers, teaching Latin and Greek at the smallish St. Andrew’s School of DE. Kid #2 has Mr. Costa this year, and also for Choral Scholars; she says he’s great. Mr. Childers has a publisher’s contract for classics translations. </p>
<p>Groton, Kent and SAS, are all Episcopal, with SAS at 300 students (all residential, like St. Paul’s), Groton at 375 and Kent at 565, a little smaller than Hotchkiss. Each has required Chapel services, some of which are “secular” in nature, and one a week which is liturgical. All three, I believe, offer the opportunity to go to a different church as the student desires in lieu of the school’s own Sunday service in their own chapel. Non-Episcopalians at all three schools generally make their peace with these requirements, especially as the schools are not proselytizing. Advanced searching will reveal lots of comments about all three schools, but feel free to pm on SAS.</p>
<p>Exeter, hands down. The classics dept. is perhaps the best funded at the school and offers incredible opportunities–visiting scholars, tiny classes when students need something more, many classes on a variety of levels, a trip to Italy…big school, but if Latin’s what you want, it’s worth a visit.</p>
<p>My D is studying in the classics Dept. at Exeter - it is a very well established program with great resources; travel options with financial aid for a year, a term, or during vacations; gifted teaching faculty; and about 20 students a year who finish Latin through intermediate college level as well as college level Greek, for the “Classics Diploma” although less demanding courses in Greek and/or Roman history and language are more popular. </p>
<p>There is a very active Classics club, certamen team competitions at Harvard, and Exeter students have done well at the National Junior Classical League, one was recently president.</p>
<p>Highly recommend classics at Exeter, but it is considerably more work than most other languages.</p>
<p>Why would one want to study the classics, the dead languages? Well not so dead, but you get my point. just curious.</p>
<p>DD has an abiding interest in history and culture related to ancient Greece and Rome. She has taken a few college courses in this area and enjoyed them. I think she would ROCK at Certamon and love being with other students interested in the classics. She has read Homer, Plato, Ovid, etc. </p>
<p>Exeter’s classics department sounds wonderful, but I don’t know that my dd would be accepted there. </p>
<p>I am deeply appreciative of all the feedback. We had another plan in mind, so are gettign late into the school search this time around.</p>
<p>Here are Kent’s offerings</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.kent-school.edu/academics/PDF/CoursesataGlance.pdf[/url]”>http://www.kent-school.edu/academics/PDF/CoursesataGlance.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thanks, Neato.</p>
<p>Take a look at The Masters School, in Dobbs Ferry, NY.</p>
<p>Some of the more accomplished latinists (and mathletes) at Hotchkiss worked with a Classics teacher last year to translate some Euler that hasn’t been ever been completely translated before. Unfortunately, Euler spends pages and pages trying to a prove a certain point and in the end says in more colloquial terms: “What I just did was a worthless endeavor” </p>
<p>Exeter and groton also have awesome classics departments!</p>
<p>Hotchkiss offers a classics diploma, for the truly dedicated classics student. Iirc PEA does as well? Someone more familiar might weigh in on that.</p>