Note: This in-person program is cancelled for 2021

AUGUST 1 - 15, 2021 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Living Greek in Greece is an intensive Ancient Greek language and literature experience set in the Peloponnese. In two seminar-style meetings every day, participants read and discuss ancient Greek literature and philosophy. To the extent possible, the language of instruction in these seminars is Attic Greek.

In addition to the daily seminar sessions, the program includes a variety of optional programming designed to build students’ facility in speaking and understanding Greek, as well as lectures on topics relating to Greek philosophy, history and culture. The program also features a trip to an important site in Greece that is relevant to the year’s theme.

In 2021 the theme for Living Greek in Greece is “adventure and travel.” Participants will read selections from Lucian's True History and Homer's Odyssey and visit the Ionian islands of Cephalonia and Zakynthos.

PREREQUISITES

This program welcomes students of all levels of Ancient Greek, from beginners through highly experienced Hellenists. In the beginner section, participants read the set text in both English translation and in Greek and review the basics of Greek grammar. The upper levels aim to read the text and discuss it entirely in Attic Greek. Paideia alumni and Nexus members are particularly encouraged to apply.

Participants must be 18 years or older. Students under the age of 18 should consider Living Greek in Greece High School.

CLASSROOM

Classes at Living Greek in Greece are held at the Hellenikon Idyllion, a hotel and Hellenic cultural center located in the charming seaside village of Selianitika on the north coast of the Peloponnese. Classes take place outdoors in a lush garden, just a few meters from the beach.

TEACHERS

Anna Conser

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Anna Conser

Anna Conser is a Ph.D. candidate in Classics at Columbia University.  She also serves as the Curriculum Chair for Living Greek in Greece, where she has taught since 2014.  During her time in New York, Anna has worked on numerous ancient-language productions for the Ancient Drama Group, including directing ”Libation Bearers" and ”Women of Trachis” in the original Greek, and composing research-based musical settings for ”Heracles”.  Building on these practical experiences, Anna’s dissertation seeks to establish a new approach to Greek lyric, by demonstrating that pitch accents can be used to partially reconstruct tragedy's lost melodies.  In addition to ancient music and performance, Anna's research interests include ancient literary criticism, modern performance and reception, and the aesthetics of intellectual wonder in philosophical and scientific writing.

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Darrel Janzen

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Post Doctoral Research Fellow

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.

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Alex Petkas

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Assistant Professor

Alex Petkas

Alex is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno. He received his PhD in Classics from Princeton University. His interests include late antique Greek literature, ancient rhetoric and literary criticism, and animals in ancient thought. His dissertation is on the figure of the philosopher in the epistolary corpus of Synesius of Cyrene. He has taught at LGiG since its inception.

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Jenny Teichmann

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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.

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