Living Greek in Greece

Anna Conser

Anna Conser is the Curriculum Chair for Living Greek in Greece. She is a Ph.D. student in Classics at Columbia University, where she has served as director for the Ancient Drama Group. In addition to tragic performance, Anna's research interests include ancient music, Aristotle's Poetics, and the aesthetic of intellectual wonder in philosophical and scientific writing. Her preliminary dissertation work investigates how pitch accent patterns in choral song may reveal musical structure, with implications for the literary interpretation of tragedy. Anna received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2007, and subsequently spent several years working odd jobs, traveling, and studying around the world. Highlights include four months in India, a Fulbright Fellowship in Erfurt, Germany, and a year of Arabic study in Damascus, Syria. 

Fernando De Morais

Darrel Janzen

Darrel Janzen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia and has enjoyed teaching at Living Greek in Greece since 2016. He received his Ph.D. in Classics at Brown University in 2018. His research interests centre on the literature and culture of the early Roman empire, and he is currently writing a book about solitude in the early Roman empire and the cultural significance that Romans assigned to behaviour that they viewed as solitary. Darrel is also involved in producing a student edition of Seneca’s De Clementia and an edition and translation of the Latin poetry of the 16^th century Italian poet Pierio Valeriano for Harvard University Press. Darrel also enjoys teaching and researching about the Greek world: he is particularly interested Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Greek attitudes towards the environment.

Roberto Salazar

Roberto Salazar is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of Versailles. A former fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, he holds a double B.A. in Classics and Philosophy, and an M.A. in Classics and Comparative Literature (Paris-Sorbonne). He is interested in the reception of classical works in the Arab World, Modern Greece and Latin America (Borges in particular), and has done research on European Classical Reception and Neo-Latin. Over the years he has developed a keen interest in learning and teaching languages, both ancient and modern. He has taught Latin and Greek in Bogota, Paris and Berlin. He currently leads the Spoken Latin workshop at the ENS and is writing a second M.A. thesis on Homeric Classical Scholarship.

Jenny Teichmann

Jenny studied German and Slavic philology in Greifswald, European Cultural History in Frankfurt/Oder, and, finally, Classics at Humboldt University Berlin. She is currently finishing her Master’s thesis – a German translation of the Epicurean philosopher Diogenes of Oinoanda – and plans to pursue a PhD afterwards. She has partaken in major translation projects as the Vulgata Deutsch and a new translation of the Greek Anthology into German. She holds close contact with the Polis Institute, Jerusalem, and is co-founder of the Σύλλογος Ἑλληνικός, a weekly meeting point for Greek enthusiasts in the Berlin area.

Rogelio Toledo Martin

Rogelio is finishing his MA in Classics at the Freie Universität Berlin. His interests include Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy, and Language Teaching. His MA Thesis is on Socrates’ famous quotation about knowing that he knows nothing; his Ph.D. research on the Greek translations of Maximos Planudes of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. He has taught Ancient Greek as a living language during summer or winter courses at the National Autonomous University of Mexico; at Ouranos in Madrid, Spain; at Polis Institute both in Rome and in Jerusalem; and at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He is co-founder of the Σύλλογος Ἑλληνικός, a weekly meeting point for Greek enthusiasts in the Berlin area.