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Hi guys, I just got an offer from King's College for MA Ancient History program, and I'm still waiting for the reply from UCL( University of London College). But I don't know which program to choose if the other response is possitive. Would you please give any advice? KIng's program is provided by Dep of Classics & Ancient HIstory, while UCL's is provided by Dep of History. Besides, KIng's College has Dep of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and Dep of Modern Greek Studies, thus it seems to me that King's program has a more interdisciplinary outlook and have a distinct advantage regarding its wide coverage from different periods of Hellenic Studies. On the other hand, UCL's Ancient History program is of particular strenth, with Professor Hans Vee teaching archaic and classical Greek Social History( I prefer social history). And UCL ranks much higher than King's as to the University Ranking accross different versions. Which program should I choose?

Hi ElCielo, I really appreciate your generous help! I will further my research of these schools' websites.

Your comments about UK universities are really insightful! I've been researching the websites of UCL, KCL, Royal Hollaway and Durham. It seems to me that Durham somehow has a more diversified faculty in Greek History studies( faculty's interests range from historiography and politics to dance and music). But I didn't expect it's weakness in research resources. Many thanks to your generous sharing!

Hey Westcott! Glad to see you again:) With your kind guidance, I found the Textkit and I'm now currently self studying ancient Greek with White's First Greek Book and making some progress........ I'm interested in Greek history. I'm still not certain about the subfield, but up to now I think my preference would be cultural history.

I'd like to find some Ancient History graduate programs but I find it more difficult to do that among US's universities than UK's. The Gardian and Times list Classics and Ancient History in their program rankings, but US News only list Classics and History respectively. These days I only found Colorado, Stanford and Indiana when searching for this program. Can anyone here say something about the programs above or recommend some other Anicent History programs?

This list is cool! I've never come up with so many professional options except acadamic positions and journalists.

Thank you Westcott! Your suggestion is really useful. I also search the web sources mentioned, and they are just what I have been looking for! Many thanks to your generous help!

Hi, I'm currently a undergraduate with a major in Modern Greek, and I'd like to learn Ancient Greek and Latin from scratch. Could anybody here give some advice to a beginner regarding methods or web resources? (Unfortunately, ancient langguage courses are not available in my school) Should I memorize those grammars first and then read some texts or learn grammar by reading text piece by piece?