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I know OSU has something like this: https://classics.osu.edu/graduate-interdisciplinary-specialization-religions-ancient-mediterranean

I was in contact with one of the professors there before I started applying to schools and he told me that they do not fund any students in the ancient history MA. You should consider all of those schools I listed in my first post. Arizona (http://classics.arizona.edu/graduate_program) and FSU (http://classics.fsu.edu/Program/Graduate-Program) are both large MA programs and fund most, if not all, of their MA students. Both of these schools have a history/civ track for the MA program. Keep in mind that you will still be able to take history/civ courses in all those other programs, too, even though the focus is on the languages. I would suggest you contact the Director of Graduate Studies at all the programs you are thinking of applying to and express your interest in the program and your desire to continue your studies in ancient history while you gain more experience with the languages (and also include this in your SOP). Ask about the possibilities of studying history in that program, etc. As I was typing this I remembered that Washington U in St. Louis, Colorado - Boulder, and Iowa also have MA programs that are worth looking into.

Can you give a bit of background info on you as a student? Do you have experience in the ancient languages, and how much? Because you posted the link to IU's program I'm going to assume that you are aiming to apply to MA programs, and not PhD programs - am I correct? I just graduated with a BA in history (my university dissolved the classics program a few years ago) and will be starting a MA program in Classics in the fall. Indiana was originally on my list but I ended up not applying because they don't offer funding to their MA students in the history&ancient languages program. So this is something else you have to consider - are you willing to pay for your education? If you are, I also suggest applying to a few post-Bacc programs just to have options. If you aren't, you still have a decent list of schools to apply to that offer funding: University of Georgia, University of Arizona, Florida State, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Kansas, Tufts - I'm sure there are others that I'm missing. On the MA level you are going to be hard pressed to find something like a joint program in history and classics. Though Arizona and FSU offer different "tracks" for their MA students (literature, archaeology, history/civ, etc.), most MA programs seem to focus on the languages. This isn't a bad thing though - assuming that your goal is to study the ancient world in a historical way in a PhD program, whether in a history department, classics department, or some type of joint program, you still need plenty of experience with the languages and the MA (or post-bacc) can only help your chances.

Nemoke Trails is very far from campus, you would need a car for pretty much everything. Tammany Hills is south of the main part of campus, near all the farms. It is a quiet area and nice, but pretty far from any of the East Lansing bars, restaurants, or grocery stores, and is also pretty far from important campus buildings - campus is huge. Timberlake and Homestead are very close to major grocery stores, a shopping center, and a movie theater, close to major bus routes, and relatively close to campus - in the summer it would definitely be biking distance, but in the winter you would probably want to drive.