July 24 - August 7, 2022
Course Description
Caesar in Gaul is a two-week seminar designed to enhance participants’ appreciation of Julius Caesar and the Gallic Wars. Developed specifically with the AP curriculum in mind, the program includes lectures and seminars led by top scholars who are reshaping the field of Caesar studies today, as well as visits to key sites of the Gallic Wars and other important monuments of Gallo-Roman culture. The first week of the program, focusing on Caesar as a man of letters and the monuments of the Roman provincia, takes place in Aix-en-Provence. In the second week, participants will travel to Lyon and Burgundy for a closer look at Gallic Culture and battle sites from the Gallic Wars.
Prerequisites
This program is designed with high-school teachers of the AP curriculum in mind, but any interested reader of Caesar is welcome to apply. Professional development credit is available upon request.
Accommodation and Classrooms
Participants are housed in hotel rooms shared with another participant. Single rooms may be available at an increased cost. A welcome and departure dinner in Paris is included in the cost of tuition. Lectures and seminars will be held in conference centers in Aix-en-Provence and Lyon or on site.
For information on accommodation click here.
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In Aix en Provence, Caesar in Gaul takes place in a spa hotel built into the city's Medieval wall, and fed by the same hot spring the fed the ancient Roman baths of Aquae Sextiae.
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Classes take place in state of the art confierence rooms.
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Caesar in Gaul also includes stays in beautiful hotels in the characteristic French regions of Lyon and Burgundy.
Instructors
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Luca Grillo
Luca Grillo teaches in the Department of Classics at Notre Dame University. He earned his M.A.s from the University of Minnesota (Classical and Near Eastern Studies), a PhD from Princeton (Classics) and taught at Amherst College (2008-13) and at UNC (2013-18). His area of specialty is Latin prose, with a special focus on writers of the Late Republic: he published a monograph on Caesar’s Civil War, a commentary on an oration by Cicero and he co-edited The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar.
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Associate Professor of Classics
Christopher Krebs
Christopher Krebs is Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He has published widely on many aspects of Roman Literature, especially historiography and its reception. His most recent book, Tacitus' Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich (Norton 2011), received the Christian Gauss Award and has been translated into six languages. He is currently preparing a commentary on Book 7 of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum as well as co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Caesar with Luca Grillo.
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Jason Pedicone
Jason Pedicone, the co-founder and President of the Paideia Institute, received his Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University in 2013. Jason has taught courses in Latin, Greek, and the history of Classical Scholarship at the university level in the U.S. and Western Europe, and is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and Fordham University. Jason’s research and public speaking focus on public humanities and Latin and Greek pedagogy. Jason received a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Germany in 2004, and a Jacob Javits Fellowship in 2013 to support his graduate work. In 2015, together with Paideia's co-founder, Eric Hewett, Jason was awarded the President’s Award by the Society for Classical Studies for outstanding achievements in promoting the study of Classics. He lives in Manhattan.
TRANSPORTATION
Participants should plan to fly in and out of Paris. All transportation within France is included.
TUITION AND FEES
The cost of Caesar in Gaul is $3500. This amount includes tuition, housing, site visits, course materials, ground transportation within France and some meals. Airfare and transportation to and from the airport are not included, and participants must bring their own edition of the course’s main text.
SCHOLARSHIPS
The Paideia Institute is able to offer a number of full and partial scholarship to students with financial need. Please visit our scholarships page to learn more.
COVID-19 CONTINGENCY PLAN
If this program is canceled due to COVID-19, an online alternative will be offered for the price of the deposit. If you feel more comfortable doing Living Latin from home in 2022, consider our online offerings through Telepaideia.
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