July 17-31, 2019
**The application deadline for the Living Greek in Greece High School program has past. There is now a waitlist for the program.
Program Description
Living Greek in Greece High School offers an introduction to the Ancient Greek language in the rich cultural setting of modern Greece. It is specifically designed for high school students. The program accommodates a range of language backgrounds: we welcome beginner participants who have not even learned the Greek alphabet, but we also offer linguistic enrichment for students who have had the equivalent of a year or more of college Greek. Students will encounter Ancient Greek texts from a wide range of times, places, and intellectual traditions, including the works of Homer, Plato, the New Testament, and the Byzantines.
Learning Ancient Greek can also help us understand and connect with other modern cultures, especially with Greeks today. For that reason, this program is committed to balancing time spent engaging with Ancient Greek language and exploring its continuining role in modern Greek food, music, and dance.
Our itinerary will include many places and sites of ancient and modern significance: Athens, Corinth, Nafplio, Epidaurus, Olympia, Delphi, and the island of Zakynthos.
Prerequisites
Students of all high school grade levels are encouraged to apply. No prior knowledge of Ancient Greek is necessary.
Classroom and Housing
For the duration of the program, students and teachers live together in the center of Athens, and then in hotels in each Greek city they visit. Language programming will take place in high quality facilities on or near the premises of residence, as well as on-site locales of historical significance. Program participants eat together daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They will be provided these meals either at our housing facility or at local restaurants.
Living Greek In Greece Staff
Aequora Site Coordinator; Rome Fellow
Visala Alagappan
Visala is from New York City and received her A.B. in Classics from Princeton University in 2017. She then received a Masters in Classical literature/languages from the University of Oxford in 2018 with a focus on early Greek hexameter poetry and reception theory. She is particularly passionate about the study of religion in the ancient world and classical reception in the poetry of W.H. Auden and W.B. Yeats. In the past, Visala has volunteered as a coordinator and teacher for Aequora’s Princeton location. She is grateful for the opportunity to teach and study with the other Rome Fellows this year.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Instructor, LLiR, LGiG, Telepaideia
Joseph Conlon
Joseph Conlon has a BA from Reed College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has taught in various Paideia programs since 2011, including LGiG, LLiR, and LLiR(HS), and also teaches Sanskrit through Telepaideia. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship with Paideia and is creating digital resources for learning Latin and Ancient Greek, including a Latin high school textbook. He is interested in language pedagogy, theories of language acquisition, historical linguistics, Homer, Plato, and Plautus.
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Rome Fellow // Graduate Student
Lyubov Kiriakidi
Luby is a 2018 graduate from Cornell University with a B.A. in Classics and the College Scholar Program. Her honors thesis on Cratylan wordplay in Greek theatre sparked an obsession with ludic orality in Greek and Latin literature. As a performer, her past notable life roles include Captain of the Varsity Fencing team, President of her sketch comedy group, as well as Corinna in Paideia's Living Latin: The Movie, and Helen, Electra, and Jocasta in the Classics department's theatrical productions. She has been hooked on Paideia since the 2016 Living Latin in NYC conference, and is an alumna of Living Latin in Rome, Living Greek in Greece, the internship program, and Living Latin in Paris. She hopes to become a Latin and Greek teacher.
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Ilias Kolokouris
Ilias Kolokouris is a Ph.D. student in Classics at the University of Athens and New College, Oxford. He holds a ptychion in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature, and a Master's Degree in teaching Modern Greek as a foreign language. His thesis was on the tragic elements found in Aristophanes’ Acharnians. Ilias has taught for the University of Missouri Creative Writing Seminars on Serifos, for the Modern Greek Language Centre of the University of Athens and for Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece program. His current research focuses on the reception of ancient Greek literature within modern greek Aestheticism prose and British Decadence in Oxford. His translation of "Women of Homer" by Oscar Wilde into modern Greek, will be published by Kastaniotis Publications in 2019.
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PHD Candidate / Instructor, Program Director
Alex Petkas
Alex is finishing his PhD in Classics at 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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Mitchell Towne
Mitchell is an alumnus of Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece and Living Latin in Paris programs. He was a Rome Fellow 2016-2017 after receiving his B.A. in Classics from Williams College. His dream is to one day become a high school teacher. He also enjoys swimming.
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Barbara Vinck
Barbara Vinck received her B.A. from Ghent University, Belgium, and completed an M.A. at Columbia University. She is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Columbia. Her interests include spectacle in imperial literature, Renaissance reception, and, most of all, wonder. Barbara has participated several times in the classical plays staged by the Barnard Columbia Ancient Drama Group. Once a student at LGiG, she came back as an instructor for the first time in the summer of 2016. Throughout the rest of the year, she helps children improve their literacy skills through Latin at one of Paideia’s Aequora sites.
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Transportation
The Institute will coordinate a group flight accompanied by a Paideia staff member, from New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport to and from Athens. Students may also travel directly to Athens, where they will be met at the airport by Paideia staff.
Chaperoned transportation to Living Greek in Greece High School will also be arranged for students attending Living Latin in Rome High School just prior to the program's start.
Tuition and Fees
The cost of Living Greek in Greece (High School) is $3850. This amount includes tuition, housing, meals, site visits, course materials, and transportation to and from Athens International airport. Airfare is not included.
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.
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