classical scholar
Studies ancient texts
A classical scholar is someone who studies the languages, literature, history, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.
The field encompasses Greek and Latin texts, ancient philosophy, archaeology, and the civilizations that produced them.
She became a classical scholar after falling in love with Homer in college.
- Ancient GreeceClassical Mediterranean civilization
- Ancient RomeMediterranean empire, antiquity
- translationConverting between languages
- philologyStudy of historical texts
- paleographyStudy of ancient handwriting
close reading · archaeologist · primary sources · historian · mythology · linguist · rhetoric · numismatics · ivory tower · Roman Republic · historical interpretation · Greek tragedy · literary analysis · Byzantine Empire · Roman Empire · Aristotle · Plato · Virgil
- music scholarsmusicologist, music theorist, ethnomusicologist, music professor, hymnologist
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
- linguistslinguist, comparativist, etymologist, philologist, phonologist
- manuscript scholarspaleographer, philologist, medievalist, scribe, transcriber
classical scholarscientist
One who studies nature
technologist · engineer · data scientist · computer scientist · physicist
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