Living Greek in Greece High School

Gene Cunningham

Gene is a student of the M.A. program in Ancient Philology at the Polis Institute in Jerusalem and is Paideia's former Assistant Director for European Operations. He received his B.A. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley. He participated in Living Latin in Rome in 2013 and Living Greek in Greece in 2012 and 2013, and Living Latin in Paris in 2013, and was Paideia's Rome Fellow for 2013-2014.

Luby Kiriakidi

Ilias Kolokouris

Claire Mieher

Claire Mieher graduated from Tufts University with a BA in Greek and Latin in 2019, and received her MA from the University of Southern California in 2021. She is interested in the reception of Greek and Latin literature from the 15th-17th centuries, especially within the writings of classically-educated women. Claire has taught and tutored high school and college students in Latin and Ancient Greek using active methods. In addition, she enjoys creating videos, glossed readings, and other resources in ancient languages. She is excited to join the Rome office this year as Senior Rome Fellow.

David Ring

David Ring teaches Latin and Ancient Greek as living languages by using an eclectic mix of methods, ranging from the insights of Renaissance Humanist pedagogy (especially the advice of Erasmus) to the Direct/Nature method to (first and foremost) Teaching with Comprehensible Input.  Be it a discussion in Attic Greek about a beautiful painting, or personal life conversation in Attic Greek, or paraphrasing Homer or Lyric into simpler Attic prose, or storyboarding Lucian's True Stories -- David and his students aim to "get lost" in the joy of what they are doing, such that they "forget" they are speaking Ancient Greek.  He believes that the purpose of liberal education is to help young people grow in self-knowledge -- both individual and cultural --, to help them form sharp intellects, wise judgment, and greatness of soul.  He believes this is best done via direct encounters with the greatest minds and greatest stories of the last 3,000 years.  

Roberto Salazar

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.