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. The program sessions are designed to build students’ facility in speaking and understanding Attic Greek. According to participants’ ability, the language of instruction is Attic Greek. In addition to the daily sessions, there will be a lecture providing further historical and philosophical background relating to the program theme.
This online program will be dedicated to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations.Through his notes to himself, Marcus works to shape his discourse according to Stoicism, presenting and representing vividly to himself the philosophy’s concepts.
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.
TEACHERS
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.
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David Hewett
David Hewett is Paideia’s Outreach Manager for Classical Tours, as well as instructor in Telepaideia. He has an M.A. in Classics (2009) from the University of Virginia and began a dissertation there on Seneca’s Epistulae Morales, before starting his position at Paideia. He has been a Regular Member of the American School for Classical Studies at Athens (2011-12), a student at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (Spring 2005), and holds a B.A. in Classical Studies from Dickinson College (2006). In addition to this formal education, he studied with Reginald Foster in Rome (2006-07). He lives in Frederick, Maryland.
His teaching currently focuses on Latin Historiography, Latin poetry in Late Antiquity, and religio-philosophical texts in Late Antiquity.
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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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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 be held 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, 2021.
