Ask Dr David Butterfield a question!

Applications Open for Ralston College’s One-Year Humanities Masters

David Butterfield is the Provost of Ralston College, and Professor of Latin. He works primarily on Latin literature, particularly poetry of the Late Republic and Augustan periods. Before joining Ralston he spent two decades at the University of Cambridge as a student and University Senior Lecturer, where he was Director of Studies in Classics, Praelector and Archivist. His teaching covered Latin and Greek literature, prose and verse composition, and textual criticism of the Classics.

On Monday, he is joining Francis and Konstantin in the studio to discuss Ancient Greece’s influence on the Western world.

Comment your questions below.

We don’t say this lightly.

Last summer, Francis and Konstantin spent a week with Ralston College students and professors in Greece and have told the team at Triggernometry that “it genuinely needs to be seen to be believed”

If you love Triggernometry, you will love this.

Ralston College runs a one-year MA in the Humanities unlike anything else. Students begin in Greece, spending two months learning to read and speak Ancient Greek while studying the foundational works of the Western tradition, starting with Homer.

From there, the programme continues in Savannah, Georgia, where students take on the most important works of the Western canon in small, serious seminars.

Ideas are tested properly.
Arguments are sharpened.
This is education as it used to be, and should be again.

Ralston accepts students with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in any discipline. Full scholarships are available.

Apply by 27 February 2026 at ralston.ac/apply