Loyola University Chicago

Additional training is required in some cases, but it is with other majors, too; and a Classics degree looks good on applications, since it shows you can master a complex subject and express yourself well.

Assorted Former Classics Students, or, the Road to Success

• Ben Bradlee, Joint Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Independent Media Group; author; formerly Executive Editor of the Washington Post
• Rita Mae Brown, author (fiction, poetry, non-fiction)
• William S. Cohen, author (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry); former U.S. Representative and Senator; Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration
• David Karp, Fruit Detective
• Jim Manzi, former CEO of Lotus Development Corp.
• J. K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter
• Lynn Sherr, Correspondent for ABC News; author
• Ted Turner, Chairman of the Turner Foundation; founder of Cable News Network and Turner Network Television; owner of the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks
• Garry Wills, scholar of cultural history and author; professor of History at Northwestern University

Thoughts of Those Who Have Been There, Done That

• Address by Lynn Sherr of ABC News to the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, on where studying Ancient Greek has gotten her in the world.
• Euthyphro II: a dialogue that has Plato in the back of its mind, on the joys and relevance of majoring in ancient Greek rather than Business. By Dave Freddoso, Greek major at the University of Notre Dame.
• Life after Classics at Ole Miss: reflections on their major of some graduates from the University of Mississippi.
• The Classics Teachers' Page: intriguing successes of assorted students of the Classics.
• Top Ten Reasons to Study Classics, a compilation of generically-sourced reflections presented by the National Committee for Latin and Greek.