The Department of Classics offers three graduate programmes and three postgraduate programmes of Latin, Greek and Antique and Humanities studies. The doctoral level of study consits of Antique Studies programme which is a part of a doctoral study scheme combined with modules and study collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. The Department was established in 1919 and is today one of the oldest departments at the faculty.
Background
In 1919, the year when the Faculty of Arts was founded at the University of Ljubljana, the Department of Classics was its founding basis. The Ancient Greek and Latin language were a part of the study curriculum and a tool for study in many other study disciplines. The first professor of Latin was Ivan Lunjak, who had lectured in Moscow, Petrograd and Odessa.