SICKNESS AND WELLNESS IN GREEK LITERATURE
July 20-31st, 2020 (Mon. - Fri.)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Living Greek Online is an intensive online Ancient Greek experience designed to bring the dynamic experience of Paideia’s Living Greek study-programs to an online environment. The program includes daily intensive reading and discussion of Greek texts from across the history of Greek literature. According to participants’ ability, the language of instruction is Attic Greek. In addition to the daily seminar sessions, the program includes online sessions designed to build students’ facility in speaking and understanding Attic Greek, as well as lectures and “virtual site visits” to sites that evoke the program’s theme.
Due to the COVID-19 Crisis, Living Greek Online will focus on exploring texts relating plague and disease throughout the history of Greek Civilization. Authors read will include Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Hippocrates, Galen, Aelius Aristides, Anna Comnena, and more.
PREREQUISITES
This program welcomes students of all levels of Greek, from beginners through highly experienced Greek speakers. The program’s lower levels welcome beginning Greek students and include both reading of the texts in Greek and in English translation as well as review of Greek grammar. The upper levels aim to read and discuss texts entirely in Greek. Paideia alumni and Nexus Members are particularly encouraged to apply.
PLATFORM AND SCHEDULING
Sessions for Living Greek Online will meet twice a day, Monday through Friday, using free video conferencing software. All that is necessary to participate is an internet or phone connection. Sessions will be scheduled based on participants’ time zone and availability so students from all over the world are welcome to apply.
TEACHERS
Fernando De Morais
Fernando is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Classics at the Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Master's Dregree in Ancient Philology from the Polis Institute of Languages and Humanities, after completing an M.A. in Literary Studies and a B.A. in Ancient Greek at the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, where he was born. Fernando has been teaching Greek since 2008 and his research interests are focused on history of education, platonism, ancient music and language acquisition.
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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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Treasurer / Director of European Operations
Marco Romani Mistretta
A native of Rome, Marco Romani Mistretta studied Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and received a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University before joining the Paideia Institute. He currently directs the Institute's European branch and oversees all financial reporting, including income statements, balance sheets, and annual budgets. He also manages the Paideia Press. Besides being the author of several research publications, he has taught a number of courses on ancient languages, Greek and Roman literatures, and science in antiquity. He peer-reviews articles for Sage Business Cases.
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Roberto Salazar
Roberto Salazar is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of Versailles. A former fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, he holds a double B.A. in Classics and Philosophy, and an M.A. in Classics and Comparative Literature (Paris-Sorbonne). He is interested in the reception of classical works in the Arab World, Modern Greece and Latin America (Borges in particular), and has done research on European Classical Reception and Neo-Latin. Over the years he has developed a keen interest in learning and teaching languages, both ancient and modern. He has taught Latin and Greek in Bogota, Paris and Berlin. He currently leads the Spoken Latin workshop at the ENS and is writing a second M.A. thesis on Homeric Classical Scholarship.
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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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PLATFORM AND SCHEDULING
Sessions for Living Greek Online will meet twice a day, Monday through Friday, using free video conferencing software. All that is necessary to participate is an internet or phone connection. Sessions will be scheduled based on participants’ time zone and availability so students from all over the world are welcome to apply.
TUITION AND FEES
The tuition for Living Greek Online is $500.
SCHOLARSHIPS
The Paideia Institute is able to offer a number of full and partial scholarships to participants with financial need. Please visit our scholarships page to learn more.
Enroll
The Enrollment deadline for this program is June 1st, 2020.
