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.

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Luca Grillo

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Professor

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.

Christopher Krebs

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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.

Jason Pedicone

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President and Co-Founder

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.