Siena University's second cycle degree programme in Classics adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the ancient world that enables students to understand the cultural values of Antiquity, including those common to or differing from the modern cultural dimension. Students will acquire advanced disciplinary and methodological skills not only in classical philology, ancient history and the two classical languages, but also in anthropology of the ancient world, a discipline linked to the 'Inter-University Centre for Anthropology and the Ancient World' founded in 1986 by Maurizio Bettini. The curriculum also includes disciplines that complete the education of the future classicist: papyrology, Greek and Latin palaeography, Byzantine civilization, medieval and humanistic Latin literature, the history of ancient philosophy and classical archaeology.
