From a community of refugees hiding out in the Italian lagoons, to one of the medieval world's most powerful maritime states.

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The Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies offers courses in the cultures, languages, literatures, history, and archaeology of ancient Greece and ancient Rome and the global and ...

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