Living Greek in Greece High School

July 17-31, 2019

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.

Joseph Conlon

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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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Amy Garland

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Assistant Director for U.S. Operations

Amy Garland

Amy is Assistant Director for U.S. Operations as well as a former Rome Fellow (2014-2015). She has an M.St. in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Oxford and an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University. She is an alumna of Paideia's very first program, Living Latin in Rome, 2011. She has taught as an assistant faculty member and also been Logistical Director for the Living Latin in Rome (High School) program. Based in the NYC office, she works on development, outreach, digital publications, and programs for Paideia.

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Dawn LaValle Norman

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LGiGHS Instructor

Dawn LaValle Norman

Dawn LaValle Norman is a Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry in Melbourne. Previously she received a AB from the University of Chicago, a MA in Early Christian Studies from Notre Dame, a Ph.D. in Classics at Princeton, and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her main research interest is Imperial Greek literature, especially the ways in which literary forms changed under the influence of Christianity. She also has an interest in how ancient science was used to bolster metaphors.

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Alex Petkas

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Greek Curriculum Development Fellow, Instructor, LGiG

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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