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A retrospective of past courses. Register your interest for any program you would like to see return in a future term
Fly to the Moon and survive being swallowed by a giant whale in Lucian’s True Histories. This course examines a 2nd-century masterpiece of Atticizing prose, celebrated for its sharp wit and unparalleled literary craftsmanship.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Wed, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT (US East) / 7:00 – 8:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Sep 26 – Nov 18
15h total
Designed for beginners, this course introduces students to the fundamentals of reading and writing Ancient Greek. Through essential classroom phrases, foundational vocabulary, and elementary grammar structures, learners will build the core skills necessary to engage directly with the language.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Fri, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT (US East) / 7:00 – 8:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Sep 18 – Nov 20
15h total
Using Greco-Roman history and mythology as a framework, we will bridge the gap between basic LLPSI grammar and classical literature. Through guided conversation, storytelling, and active image description, we will explore the essential characters, myths, and historical events that form the cultural background of Roman thought, strengthening both your spoken fluency and Latin reading comprehension.
Taught in Latin
Recordings Available
Mon, 1.00 - 2:30 PM EDT (US East) - 17:00 – 18:30 CET (Central Europe) .
Oct 5 - Feb 1 (2027)
24 hours total
This course offers an active introduction to Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, one of the most original and captivating works of Latin literature. Blending elements of the novel, the marvelous tale, and satire, the text presents a rich sequence of stories featuring travelers, bandits, witches, slaves, gods, and animals, inviting students into both the imaginative and everyday worlds of Roman life.
Taught in Latin
Recordings Available
Thu, 12.00 - 1:30 PM EDT (US East) - 18:00 – 19:30 CET (Central Europe) .
Oct 1 - Feb 4
24 hours total
This seminar offers advanced beginners a sustained narrative reading of selected episodes from Neophytos Doukas’s Koine prose paraphrase of the Odyssey. Participants retell and discuss each episode in Ancient Greek, in preparation for further unsheltered prose.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Thu, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT (US East) / 6:00 – 7:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Sept 3 – Nov 5
15h total
This course introduces students to the most salient and evocative portions of Vergil’s Georgics, a didactic poem that ostensibly teaches the practices of agriculture, yet unfolds into a richly layered meditation on labor, nature, and human civilization.
Taught in Latin
Recordings Available
Thu, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT (US East) / 6:00 – 7:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Sept 10 – Oct 29
12h total
This course introduces John Cassian’s Collationes, a foundational text of Latin monastic thought and a key witness to the ancient psychology of attention, discipline, and interior struggle. We will explore how monastic experience is transformed into a reflection on focus, distraction, and the governance of the mind.
Taught in Latin
Recordings Available
Tue, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT (US East) / 6:00 – 7:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Sept 29 – Nov 17
12h total
In this seminar we will read selections from the Greek Anthology, a collection of Greek poetry spanning many centuries, and including authors such as Callimachus, Nossis, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Palladas.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Tue, 1:30 PM – 3 PM EDT (US East) / 7:30 – 9 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Sep 8 – Nov 10
15h total
This immersive seminar focuses on the communicative acquisition of everyday vocabulary to solidify a functional command of Greek grammar. Students engage in active dialogue and interactive tasks to simulate authentic ancient communication.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Sat, 10–11 AM EDT (US East) / 4–5 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Sep 5 – Nov 7
Duration: 90 minutes
15h total
This seminar offers a philological and historical examination of ancient Greek spherical astronomy through primary texts by Ptolemy and Aratus. Students transition from mythos to geometric logos while refining their command of scientific Greek prose.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Wed, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT (US East) / 17:00 – 18:30 CET (Central Europe)
Sep 2 – Nov 4
15h total
This course provides a technical introduction to the fundamental meters of Ancient Greek poetry—iambic, hexameter, and anapest—through the study of classical and Christian authors. Students engage with authorities like Hephaistion and Tzetzes.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Sat, 12–1:30 PM EDT (US East) / 6–7:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Jun 13 – Jul 11
7.5h total
This immersion seminar offers a comprehensive reading of Plato’s Apology in the original Greek. Participants explore the ethical interrogations raised by Socrates’ defense while refining their mastery of Attic forensic and philosophical style.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Mon, 12–1:30 PM EDT (US East) / 6–7:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Jul 27 – Sep 28
15h total
This course provides a philological analysis of Menander’s One-Verse Maxims, exploring their ethical depth and poetic structure. Students master iambic trimeter through recitation and memorization to reveal the ancient Athenian worldview.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Tue, 1:30–3 PM EDT (US East) / 7:30–9 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Jun 30 – Sep 1
15h total
This seminar offers a philological and philosophical examination of the concept of philia through primary texts by Plato and Aristotle. Students explore the nature of virtue and reciprocity while refining their command of Ancient Greek prose.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Mon, 1–2:30 PM EDT (US East) / 7–8:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Jun 29 – Aug 31
15h total
This seminar offers a rigorous immersion into ancient eloquence by pairing Aesop’s Fables with the classical Progymnasmata. Students transition from analysis to stylistic mastery, using seminal handbooks to model their oral and written work.
Taught in Ancient Greek
Recordings Available
Tue & Thu, 2–3:30 PM EDT (US East) / 8–9:30 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Jun 23 – Sep 10
36h total
Starting from Quintilian’s declaration that satura tota nostra est, this course surveys Roman satire as a uniquely indigenous genre, exploring its historical development, generic boundaries, and its distinctive literary legacy through the ages.
Taught in Latin
Recordings Available
Thu, 10:30 AM – 12 PM EDT (US East) / 4:30 – 6 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Jun 18 – Sep 4
18h total
This twelve-week seminar explores a curated selection of narratives from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, contextualizing them within the Roman literary landscape and tracing their enduring influence on Medieval and Early Modern art, music, and literature.
Taught in Latin
Recordings Available
Sat, 10:30 AM – 12 PM EDT (US East) / 4:30 – 6 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Jun 18 – Sep 4
18h total
This seminar offers a rigorous philological and intertextual analysis of Ovid’s Heroides, focusing on the Trojan cycle epistles to examine the rhetorical construction of the feminine voice and its complex dialogue with the Homeric tradition.
Taught in Latin
Recordings available
Tue & Thu, 5–7 AM EDT (US East) / 11 AM – 1 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Jul 7–30
16h total
Led by Lee Lanzillotta
Using Marcantonio Flaminio’s first book of poems as a framework, we will discuss the many meters used by Catullus and his Renaissance imitators. We will also cover the intellectual environment in which Flaminio wrote, touching on other Latin and Italian authors of the period (early 16th century) within his intellectual orbit.
Taught in Latin
Recordings Available
Fri, 2.00 PM EDT (US East) / 8:00 PM CEST (Central Europe)
Oct 09 – Dec 11
10h total
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