One Thousand and One Nights - Intermediate Arabic
Fall 2025
Course Description
Course Description: Poems are meant to be read aloud. At least, this was a given in Antiquity: often, they were or music themselves or accompanied by music. Yet, today, many people (from university students to teachers) are feeling uncomfortable to do this, either being unfamiliar with metre at all, or, although knowing how scansion works, are not sure how it is to be actually read. Doing so, you concentrate mainly on the poem’s contents and its rhetoric, but you miss a great deal of the poet’s artwork: its outer form, its sound, its music, which, very often, is employed skillfully to underline the meaning. Apart from that, knowing metre helps a lot in understanding the grammar of a poem (e.g. when you have to decide which words belong together based on its quantities), and appreciate also prose rhythm as adhibited by authors like Cicero or Seneca. We will start from an introduction into prosody (pronunciation, accent, vowel and syllable quantities etc.), passing on to some selected metres of Classical Roman poetry as e.g. Hexameter, Elegiacs, Iambic Trimeter and Lyrical verses. All of this will always be in line with the skills and wishes of the students, and the atmosphere will be chilled!. Level: “This course is meant for students who have completed the Telepaideia Consolidation Level. A knowledge of the present and past conjugations, of verb forms I through VI, and a strong foundation in core vocabulary are necessary to follow this course Textbook: Instructor will provide materials.
Details
- Semester: Fall 2025
- Day: Sunday
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Duration: 60 minutes per session
Tuition
$375 per course
Availability
5 spots remaining out of 7
Cancellation Policy
Telepaideia tuition is non-refundable. However, if you need to cancel your enrollment or withdraw from your class, you may be eligible for a 50% credit to be used toward a future Telepaideia course. In order to be eligible for this credit, you must notify info@paideiainstitute.org of your withdrawal before the second class meeting has taken place.