SICKNESS AND WELLNESS IN LATIN LITERATURE
JUNE 29 - JULY 11, 2020 (Mon. - Fri.)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Living Latin Online is an intensive online Latin experience designed to bring the dynamic experience of Paideia’s Living Latin study-programs to an online environment. The program includes daily intensive reading and discussion of Latin texts from across the history of Latin literature. According to participants’ ability, the language of instruction is Latin. In addition to the daily seminar sessions, the program online sessions designed to build students’ facility in speaking and understanding Latin, as well as lectures and “virtual site visits” to sites that evoke the courses theme.
Due to the COVID-19 Crisis, Living Latin Online will focus on exploring texts relating to sickness and wellness throughout the history of Latinity. Readings will include selections from Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Heloise, Petrarch, Fracastoro and many more.
PREREQUISITES
This program welcomes students of all levels of Latin, from beginners through highly experienced Latin speakers. The program’s lower levels welcome beginning Latin students and include both reading of the texts in Latin and in English translation as well as a review of Latin grammar. The upper levels aim to read and discuss texts entirely in Latin. Paideia alumni and Nexus Members are particularly encouraged to apply.
TEACHERS
Professor of the Practice in Latin
Daniel Gallagher
Daniel Gallagher holds degrees from the University of Michigan (B.S. and M.A.), the Catholic University of America (M.A. in Philosophy), and the Pontifical Gregorian University (S.T.L.). From 1995 to 2000, he studied Latin under the expert instruction of Fr. Reginald Foster, O.C.D., whom he succeeded in the Office of Latin Letters at the Vatican Secretariat of State in 2007 - 2016. He is currently the Ralph and Jeanne Kanders Associate Professor of the Practice in Latin at Cornell University.
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Elżbieta Górka
Elżbieta Górka is a Ph.D. student in Literary studies and MA student in psychology at University of Wrocław in Poland. She holds a MA in Classics from the same University. Elżbieta is particularly interested in Neo-Latin literature and is writing her doctoral dissertation on the pastoral poetry of Neo-Latin poet Giovanni Baptista Mantovano. Her other academic interests include Augustan poetry, the image of woman in Latin literature, cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. In her free time Elżbieta reads English literature from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, draws and sings in choirs, collects herbs and hikes in the mountains.
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Tyler Patterson
Tyler ("Imbrex") is a PhD student in Classics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is an alumnus of numerous Polis, SALVI, and Paideia Institute programs worldwide and is a passionate advocate for active approaches to ancient languages. Broadly interested in the Latin literary tradition as well as the history and legacy of the Roman world, Tyler’s doctoral work focuses on the representation of the city of Rome in Latin literature, especially from c. 1100 to 1450.
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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. Besides being the author of several research articles, he has taught a number of courses on ancient languages, Greek and Roman literatures, and science in antiquity.
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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 Latin online will be held using free video conferencing software. Each course meets twice a day for one hour. All that is necessary to participate is a computer 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 Latin 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.
Enrollment and Payment
