Fresh Faculty of the Week: Christopher van den Berg

How did you begin studying classics and what made you decide to pursue it? Initially I was interested in 19th and 20th century philosophy and literary theory. It seemed like after I studied these, especially the French and German traditions, it then became necessary to study Greek and Latin. The decision to pursue classics was one I made in graduate school. I was going to do a project on German Romanticism and Neo-classicism. At the last minute I decided to work on a Latin dialogue for my disse