The subject of Greek covers the entire textual legacy of Greek antiquity. The traditional focus of the subject is on the study of the language, the explanation of texts, and their analysis from a literary and cultural studies perspective.

Since Greek texts have helped shape European intellectual and cultural history up to the present day, the course also addresses the ways in which their motifs and ideas have been received, as well as the fundamental questions of European philosophy in metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics that are formulated in these texts.

This content gives the subject an interdisciplinary function and orientation not only in relation to other ancient studies disciplines, historical-comparative linguistics, and Byzantine studies, but also to other subjects such as modern literature, philosophy, theology, and cultural studies. Greek studies can thus function as a core subject and the linchpin of a humanities faculty.