Voice of Athens: Advanced Spoken Greek with Theophrastus

*Please note that this course will run only if two or more students enroll.

Course Description: Have you ever wondered what Athenians talked about on their way to the agora? In this advanced spoken Ancient Greek course, you’ll explore exactly that. Through the lens of Theophrastus's Characters, we’ll dive into the lively conversations of ancient Athens, focusing on the descriptive language used to portray personality and character. Each session will focus on a particular character, exploring descriptive vocabulary, and complex morphology through substitution drills.

Through interactive dialogues, role-playing, and in-depth linguistic exploration, you’ll develop greater fluency and confidence in speaking Ancient Greek. Additionally, special emphasis will be placed on dealing with Athenian realia: clothing, food, social customs and conversational expressions.

DETAILS

Level: Students should be able to converse with relative ease in Ancient Greek.

Textbook: Instructor will provide materials.

Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.

When
Thursdays, 10:00a.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$250

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Voice of Athens: Advanced Spoken Greek with Theophrastus ($250)

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Instructor

Roberto Salazar

Roberto Salazar is an experienced polyglot language coach and nomadic classicist, with a passion for teaching Latin and Greek as spoken languages, and an impossible desire to speak all tongues imaginable, and to teach them to those who want to learn them.

He has taught Latin, Greek, Arabic, German and more in different places around the world, including various Paideia programs, online and on site. A former fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, where he studied Classics and Philosophy, he's currently writing a PhD dissertation on the reception of Greek tragedy in the Arab World, Modern Greece and Latin America. He has also done research on European Classical Reception and Neo-Latin.

He has published fiction translations into French and Spanish from various languages including Swedish. In 2017, he was the head literary curator for the French-Colombian Year.

That's probably why he's still scrambling to complete his PhD at the University of Versailles.

He currently lives between Athens, Cairo and Saint Denis, France.