Gillian Scott is a 4th year student at the University of Toronto, studying Classics and Classical Civilizations. As well as being involved in her university’s Classics Students’ Union, she enjoys acting, singing, and trying to learn as many languages as humanly possible. She is an alumna of Living Latin in Rome 2014.
Yeonsuk is currently a senior at the Heights school in Potomac, MD, studying both latin and classical Greek. He participated in Living Latin in Rome High School and Living Greek in Greece, deepening my love for classics. He is the president of Heights classics club, and he loves studying philosophy. He also writes for the school newspaper, the Cavaliers. His favorite Roman poet is Vergil, whom he studied during Junior year of high school. His favorite Greek playwrights are Euripides and Sophocles. His interests include philosophy, creative writing, and traveling around the world.
Christophe Rico is currently the director of Polis. The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities, which offers courses in ancient languages taught using modern language acquisition methods. Prof. Rico holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Sorbonne and recently published a textbook for learning Koine Greek as a living language, Polis. Parler le grec ancien comme une langue vivante, available in French, German, and Italian.
Luigi Miraglia is the president of the Accademia Vivarium Novum, which offers intensive and immersive instruction in Latin and Greek language and literature in Rome. Dr. Miraglia has organized several international conferences on classical languages, humanism, and their significance in the modern cultural context. He has published, in collaboration with Hans Henning Ørberg and Tommaso Francesco Bórri, Latine disco, part of the series, Lingua Latina per se illustrata. He also collaborated with Bórri to publish an Italian edition of Athènaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, by Oxford University Press.
Liz Hestand earned a BA in Classics and Art History from Temple University, with an honors thesis on ceramic production in Roman Gaul. She is a Latin teacher at Central High School in Philadelphia and an advocate for active Latin and public education. Liz has excavated at sites in France and Italy, studied ceramology at the American Academy in Rome, and is currently researching the amphorae from the C field of the Joint Expeditions to Caesarea in conjunction with Drew University.
Jonathan had the distinct privilege of learning Latin at the feet and mensa of the Venerable David Morgan. Thence he formed friendships with Latin and Greek-speakers the world over, and he took his love for classical languages to Catholic seminaries in Germany, Italy, France, and the United States. He completed course work for the S.T.D. with a specialization in Patristics at the Institutum Patristicum "Augustinianum" in Rome, Italy. He lives in urbe with his wife and children and [ill]ic mane[bunt] optime. Jonathan's greatest pleasure is to sing Liturgical Music in Latin, Greek, and Church Slavonic.