Where are the best Classics departments?

I am mainly concerned with the US, but you can include the UK, too, if you know about those. Edited to add: graduate Classics departments.

Thanks!

I should've specified I meant PhD-awarding Classics departments.

Thanks, though! I've heard great things about them, too, and, if I had any kids, I'd encourage them to go there.

I don't think it awards PhDs, though.

...a conventional school. Not going to St Johns is still one of my biggest regrets. It wasn't until I got my college degree that I understood what I really needed in my college degree.

Best in the country. You'll probably end up looking at private schools: many state U's no longer have Classics departments.

I know that it isn't in the US or the UK, but my brother in law is a Classics PhD candidate there, so I had to give it a shout out.

Richmond Lattimore translated the Iliad as fine as I've come across. I wanted to go study with him. Then I got drafted and the rest, as they say, is history. I would guess that UTexas still has a good Classics Dept, if for no other reason than inertia still loaded into the system from the Lattimore days. Per their webpage they have 25 on faculty!
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/classics/

Robert Fagles was at Princeton; I imagine he's left a strong legacy in New Jersey (worst Mexican food I ever gagged on was across from Princeton, but that's a ni modo, I suppose). http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/

My alma mater is UCSB, and they have a classics program that holds sentimental value for me. And there's always the lure of Isla Vista and the Campus-by-the-Sea.
http://www.classics.ucsb.edu/

I am taking my first free employee-benefit class this fall with an eye to continuing.... ;)

Almost switched my major.

anywhere?

:)