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. The program's online sessions are designed to build students' facility in speaking and understanding Latin. According to participants' ability, the language of instruction is Latin. In addition to the daily sessions, there will be a lecture providing further historical and philosophical background relating to the program theme.

This summer's session of the Living Latin Online program will be dedicated to Seneca’s Moral Epistles to Lucilius. Through his letters, Seneca explores the relationship between teacher and student, between author and reader, and between expressing ideas and putting them into practice.

PREREQUISITES

This program welcomes students of all levels of Latin, from beginners through highly experienced Latinists. Students are grouped by level. 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

Gene Cunningham

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Assistant Curriculum Design Manager

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.

Daniel Gallagher

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Instructor for Living Latin in Paris

Daniel Gallagher

After a decade of service to Benedict XVI and Francis as a papal Latinist, Daniel Gallagher was named the Ralph and Jeanne Kanders Professor of the Practice in Latin at Cornell University in 2017. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the Catholic University of America, and the Pontifical Gregorian University and has published extensively in medieval philosophy, especially in the areas of metaphysics and aesthetics. He is dedicated to handing on the Latin language based on the principles and methodology of his long-time mentor, Reginald Foster.

David Hewett

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Tours Outreach Manager

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 Philadelphia.

Jenny Teichmann

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Instructor, Living Latin in Rome & Living Greek in Greece

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.