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

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.

Diana Pont Puig

Diana Pont received a BS in Classics from Universitat de València and an MA in High School education with a focus on Greek and Latin teaching from the same University. Then, she devoted herself to learning and teaching the ancient Greek language as a living language. Now she works as an Ancient Greek and Classical Culture teacher at a High School in Spain, her home country. (In her free time, she loves to read Greek quietly or perform traditional activities of her land, such as playing Pilota Valenciana or doing human pyramids.) 

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.