Lectures in Ancient Greek

Ian Flanders (MTS: Holy Cross,  BA: Catholic University) is an expert in Byzantine chant and a lover of Greek language and literature. A man of many interests varied and sundry, his primary research has focused on Late Antique Greek philosophy and science, considering especially its relationship with the development of Christian doctrine. A fervent admirer of Texas Longhorn Cattle and everything agricultural and farm-related, Cato the Elder holds a special place in his heart as the one who inspired him to incorporate large quantities of sauerkraut and beer into his diet.

Nissa Maria Flanders is a doctoral student in Greek & Latin at the Catholic University of America, where she teaches and tutors both Greek and Latin. Over the past several years, she has enjoyed taking part in a spoken Greek & Latin group at CUA, which she currently co-organises with William Linney; she has also attended Homer Camp and Plato Camp (Ancient Language Institute), Σύνοδος ἑλληνική (Polis Institute), and, of course, LLiNYC. Her research focuses primarily on reception and character development in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes. 

John James is a PhD student in Classics at SUNY, Buffalo. He received his BA in Classical Studies from Hillsdale College and his MA in Ancient Philology from the Polis Institute in Jerusalem. At Polis he also taught immersive Ancient Greek courses ranging from absolute beginner to advanced reading and composition courses based on the ancient progymnasmata. His MA thesis “The Greek and Hebrew Background of σπλάγχνα in the New Testament” explored the Greek bodily and emotional metaphors connected to the Greek word σπλάγχνα from Homer to early Christianity. John’s current research focuses on Ancient Greek grammarians and rhetoricians, poetics, scholia, and ancient music. John is also the graduate Fellow of the Tesserae Project, a digital humanities project that identifies allusions between ancient authors. When not reading Ancient Greek, John likes to run, watch birds, and play the cello.

Roberto Salazar is an experienced polyglot language coach and nomadic classicist, with a passion for teaching Latin and Greek as spoken languages, and an impossible desire to speak all tongues imaginable, and to teach them to those who want to learn them.

He has taught Latin, Greek, Arabic, German and more in different places around the world, including various Paideia programs, online and on site. A former fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, where he studied Classics and Philosophy, he's currently writing a PhD dissertation on the reception of Greek tragedy in the Arab World, Modern Greece and Latin America. He has also done research on European Classical Reception and Neo-Latin.

He has published fiction translations into French and Spanish from various languages including Swedish. In 2017, he was the head literary curator for the French-Colombian Year.

That's probably why he's still scrambling to complete his PhD at the University of Versailles.

He currently lives between Athens, Cairo and Saint Denis, France.

Joanna Thornhill was born and raised in sunny Los Angeles, California. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has a great passion for ancient languages and makes it a priority to understand the speech and mind of the ancients as well as possible. She has taught a variety of students Greek and Latin both in individual and group settings. Apart from studying languages, she spends much of her time reading literary and philosophical texts and discussing them with her friends. Homer and Aristotle are two of her favorite authors to read. She also enjoys hiking and seeing all that nature’s beauty has to offer.