The Department of Classical Languages currently has 23 members. Their interests cover an extremely large area in the field of Latin and Greek languages and cultures. There are specialists who ensure the documentary basis for research by preparing critical editions and influential translations, compiling textbooks and other teaching materials, giving new interpretations adapted to the most recent tendencies in classical philology, as well as treating the more general theoretical aspects of the field. Some are concerned with traditional classical philology, while others are interested in its continuation after classical Antiquity (Middle and Neo-Latin, Middle and Neo-Greek, from a comparative perspective).

At present, the Department also has specialists in Greco-Latin literary history and theory; the history and grammar of the classical languages; Indo-Europenean studies, history of the Romance languages; classical ancient history and epigraphy; Mycenaean studies; ancient Italic dialectology; classical and medieval poetics and stylistics, etc. Various large-scale projects are in progress. In recent years brought the range of interests of Department members has diversified to include areas such as: Middle Latin literature and mentality; literary culture of Byzantium, classical and Romanian mythology, etc.