Living Latin in Rome High School

Course Description

Living Latin in Rome High School offers a holistic immersion experience in the Latin language and the city of Rome that is specifically designed for high school students. The program brings Latin to life both by reading ancient texts at the historical sites where they happened and through a variety of student-centered approaches spanning both traditional and spoken Latin methodologies. Readings are drawn from the entire history of the Latin language and therefore include medieval and Renaissance Latin, to which students are rarely exposed in typical high school curricula.

The program lasts for two weeks in July. It includes traditional classroom sessions, informal conversational Latin sessions, interactive visits to important historical and literary sites in Rome, the production of a Latin skit to be performed in an assembly of fellow students and friends of the Paideia Institute, and day trips to important sites outside of Rome.

Prerequisites

Students who have studied Latin for at least one year are encouraged to apply. The course will also be challenging and interesting for students who have studied Latin for many years. Students of all grade levels, including graduating seniors, are encouraged to apply.

Classrooms & Housing

For the duration of the program, students and teachers live together in the center of Rome. Classes take place in the same facility where students are housed and also on site in the city. Students eat together daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. These meals are provided either at our housing facility or at local restaurants.

Teachers

Meaghan Carley

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Graduate Student

Meaghan Carley

Meaghan is a graduate student at Brown University, working on a dissertation on ancient theater titled "Dramatic Space, Culture, and Performance in Republican Italy." Before graduate school, Meaghan received a B.A. from Stanford University and was a Rome Fellow (2016-2017). She is also an alumna of Living Latin in Paris (2016).

John Scurfield

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Living Latin Online Head Instructor

John Scurfield

L.J. Scurfield is the lead Latin teacher at Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he also supervises a dormitory and coaches golf.   L.J. earned his M.A. in Classics at the University of Kentucky in their spoken Latin program and holds a B.A. in Classical Languages from Hamilton College, where he wrote a thesis on the role of Aethiopia in the ancient world. He is an alumnus of Living Latin in Rome '14, taught on the Living Latin in Rome (High School) program from 2015-2019, led Living Latin Online (High School) from 2020-2022, and was also a Site Coordinator for Aequora's Kentucky program.  He enjoys the poetry of Horace and finding unusual Latin inscriptions around Rome.  

Joe Watkins

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Instructor for LLiRhs

Joe Watkins

I am a PhD student at Boston University. I hold an M.A. in Classics from the University of Kentucky and a certificate in Latin studies from the Institutum Studiis Latinis Provehendis housed there as well. I taught high school Latin for 3 years at Tucker High School shortly after completing my B.A. at the University of Georgia.
I am primarily interested in prose, specifically historiography and rhetoric, in both Latin and Ancient Greek, although I also enjoy reading poetry in both languages.

Mitchell Towne

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LLiRHS Logistical Director

Mitchell Towne

Mitchell works as a full time Latin teacher, swim coach, and resident dorm faculty at Blair Academy. He served as Classics Tours Manager for Paideia from 2017-2019 during which time he led classical tours around Italy, Greece, and Sicily and administered the Living Latin in Rome High School and Living Greek in Greece High School programs. Earlier he was a Paideia Rome fellow from 2016-2017. An alumnus of Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece and Living Latin in Paris programs, he is a 2016 graduate of Williams College with a bachelor’s degree in Classics. He enjoys swimming and is currently learning to play the bouzouki. 

 

AnnMarie Patterson

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Senior Rome Fellow

AnnMarie Patterson

AnnMarie Patterson is a Ph.D student in Classics the University of Southern California focusing on epic poetry and Roman art. She has taught for the institute’s Telepaideia and Living Latin Online HS programs, as well as other Latin classes. An alum of Paideia’s Living Latin in Rome and Living Greek in Greece programs, she loves spoken Latin, the architecture of Rome, and a good cappuccino.

Vukašin Miljković

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Vukašin Miljković

Vukašin Miljković is a PhD student in Classical Philology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. His dissertation has the aim of exploring fundamental ideas about the Greek language and Greek language teaching among the Greek Atticists of the Age of Enlightenment. A proponent of the active study methods of Latin and Ancient Greek, he spent a year at the Accademia Vivarium Novum where he consolidated his knowledge of spoken Latin and Ancient Greek, as well as at the University of Ioannina, Greece, where he attained high proficiency in Modern Greek as well. Vukašin also took part in an exchange program organized by the US Department of State which enabled him to spend a year at the University of Texas at Austin, studying the classical languages as well as Sanskrit. His teaching experience includes high-school level and university level courses in Greek and Latin, both in classroom and online, summer school intensive courses, as well as conventional language courses. Currently he is also working on a Septuagint translation project at his home university.

Brendan McGlone

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Instructor Living Latin in Rome High School

Brendan McGlone

Brendan McGlone was born and raised in Boonton, NJ. He studied the humanities with a focus on Latin and medieval studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and spent two summers living and studying in Rome with the Paideia Institute. After writing an honors thesis on a late medieval manuscript collection of Latin sermons, he moved to Rome as a fellow for Paideia, studying Italian, Latin, and the history of the city before leading tours and teaching Latin courses to American high school students. After his year in Rome, Brendan moved back to New Jersey, and is happily teaching English and Latin and coaching the swim team at the Catholic high school he attended, Seton Hall Prep. In addition to teaching, he enjoys playing music and ultimate frisbee with his family and friends.

 

Laurie Hutcheson

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Head Teacher

Laurie Hutcheson

Laurie Glenn Hutcheson is the Head Teacher at Living Latin in Rome High School. She made her first visit to Rome when she was in high school, and she has been going back ever since. She discovered the magic of reading (and singing) Latin in Rome with Reginald Foster in the summers of 2004 and 2006. After teaching Latin and Greek at Boston University Academy for 8 years, she began teaching in LLiR(HS) in 2014. She completed her PhD at Boston University in 2018 with a dissertation on the Iliad. She loves good stories and playing games with language.

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Transportation

An Institute staff member will chaperone a group flight from New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport to and from Rome. Students may also travel directly to Rome, where they will be met at the airport by Paideia staff.

Tuition and Fees

The cost of Living Latin in Rome High School is $5000. This amount includes tuition, housing, meals, site visits, course materials, and transportation to and from Rome's Fiumicino airport. Airfare is not included.

Online Option for 2023

The Paideia Institute will also be running an online intensive summer Latin program for high school students called Living Latin Online (High School). This is a separate program from the in-person program in Rome and follows a different curriculum. Details of the online summer program will be announced in January 2023.

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. Scholarship applications received by the priority application deadline for the program (March 1, 2023) will receive fullest consideration.

Request an Application

For the highest chance of admission, please submit your completed application by the priority deadline of March 1, 2023. Applications received after March 1 will be considered on a rolling basis while space is available.

What People Are Saying

"My experience this summer with the Paideia institute was incredibly enriching and enjoyable. I not only got the chance to interact with people from all over the globe and meet new friends, but I also got to experience the history of Rome and strengthen my Latin skills. Latin immersion is a crucial part of my success in the subject today, as I was challenged with not only understanding and reading it, but also speaking it. I strongly recommend this program to any high schooler who would like to strengthen their Latin knowledge immensely, while having an amazing time in Rome." - Jack Montgomery '22

"It wasn’t until the third day that it all just clicked. This elusive ‘it’ is hard to define, but I think it’s something like ‘the big picture.’ It’s the reason why we were here in Rome and not back in New York. It happened when we were in a bath house at Ostia. After the now familiar translation session, we sang a song together. That was when it all dawned upon me. Here I was, singing a song in the very same chamber that must have once held its very own author some 1500 years ago. That moment was the start of everything. From then on, I was a part of it all, not an idle spectator. I was living in it, not just reading about it." - Ralph Vente '16

"Paideia opened up an entirely new way of thinking about and exploring Rome. Through the lens of the Latin language and Roman history, I was able to decipher a part of Rome that had been previously inaccessible. The Latin texts I'd read in my classroom and the ones we read every morning gained meaning at each of the sites we visited and truly brought the city to life. This access to the city of Rome, combined with our morning Latin sessions, which were conducted completely in Latin by the end of the program, gave me a love for and understanding of Latin that I will build upon for the rest of my life and made Paideia a truly unique and valuable experience." - Amelia O'Donahue '15

"Paideia resurrected the ancient ruins, and they became colorful, vivacious, and fascinating. The stones of the Forum and the Via Appia spoke not of historical events only, but of us, as humans. Walking along the road like an average Roman would have done thousands of years before really instilled in me a sense of connection, that Latin and history isn’t about memorizing facts, vocab, and tables, but for connecting with those before us, those living in the present, and those who will come after us." - Andrew Biondo '15

"My time in Rome was honestly amazing. It was everything I expected it would be and more. I learned so much from my instructors and my fellow peers. I studied the works of Ovid, Horace, Virgil, Suetonius and many more. I established great friendships along the way. This experience was life-changing, and I'm so grateful to have been awarded the chance to stay in Rome." - Stephanie Dinsae '14