Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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Prof. Matthew Dillon received his BA in Classics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1974, and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1984. After three years at Smith College, he joined the LMU faculty in 1987. His research interests have grown from early publications on Greek tragedy and comedy to include connections between eastern and western traditions, the pronunciation of ancient Greek and Latin. Since 1999, he has participated in the Rough Cilicia Archaeology Survey Project under the direction of Prof. Nicholas Rauh of Purdue Univerisity, and contributed to several publications resulting from that fieldwork. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association in 2007. He has written a new digital textbook for Elementary Latin which was introduced into LMU’s curriculum in 2015.

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