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Videos promoting the study of Latin, Greek, and the Classical Humanities.
Abigail Palmer | Did That Really Happen? Compelling Instruction in the Classical Humanities
Teaching Latin and ancient history can be a challenging enterprise, but need it be a chore for both teacher and student? These subjects are often characterized as arcane or irrelevant; one look at the actual ancient world, however, can dispel these labels. The Classical world contains a wide variety of events that seem to defy natural or human limitations and continues to upend our preconceptions about the capabilities of the ancients. The key to student engagement with antiquity is in the teaching.
In this lecture I will discuss the idea of teaching history as a story, one that makes use of the astounding and real events that happened in the ancient world. The development of my Ancient Humanities course has taken years and requires constant refinement, but the fruits of this work have been well worth the hours of planning and re-evaluation. The fruits of history as a story include greater student engagement and renewed enjoyment for the teacher. Who doesn’t love to tell a great story to a willing audience? Who doesn’t love to tell that story over and over, making it better every time?
From the stories I tell and the stories that others have developed in the Montessori curriculum, I discovered ancient Alexandria. That ancient city was practically a footnote in my high school, college and graduate educations. Yet this fascinating place became the inspiration and primary setting for my first novel, Faelan and the Miracle Machines. The second half of my talk will discuss the outline of the novel, the city of Alexandria and its people, and the machines that inspired Heron’s ancient audience and continue to captivate my modern students.
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Abigail Palmer received her BA in Classics from University of Dallas and her MA in Classics from Fordham University. She is a member of Eta Sigma Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, and holds a certificate from Association Montessori Internationale for the adolescent level of instruction. Over the years she has written Classical curriculum for the high school level and published essays on a variety of topics. This spring she published her first novel, Faelan and the Miracle Machines, an historical fiction work set in ancient Alexandria, Egypt.
Abigail has taught subjects ranging from Latin and Greek to History and Drama in private schools for seventeen years, working with students ages twelve through eighteen. She lives in the Napa valley with her husband and family.
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www.paideiainstitute.org/
In this lecture I will discuss the idea of teaching history as a story, one that makes use of the astounding and real events that happened in the ancient world. The development of my Ancient Humanities course has taken years and requires constant refinement, but the fruits of this work have been well worth the hours of planning and re-evaluation. The fruits of history as a story include greater student engagement and renewed enjoyment for the teacher. Who doesn’t love to tell a great story to a willing audience? Who doesn’t love to tell that story over and over, making it better every time?
From the stories I tell and the stories that others have developed in the Montessori curriculum, I discovered ancient Alexandria. That ancient city was practically a footnote in my high school, college and graduate educations. Yet this fascinating place became the inspiration and primary setting for my first novel, Faelan and the Miracle Machines. The second half of my talk will discuss the outline of the novel, the city of Alexandria and its people, and the machines that inspired Heron’s ancient audience and continue to captivate my modern students.
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Abigail Palmer received her BA in Classics from University of Dallas and her MA in Classics from Fordham University. She is a member of Eta Sigma Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, and holds a certificate from Association Montessori Internationale for the adolescent level of instruction. Over the years she has written Classical curriculum for the high school level and published essays on a variety of topics. This spring she published her first novel, Faelan and the Miracle Machines, an historical fiction work set in ancient Alexandria, Egypt.
Abigail has taught subjects ranging from Latin and Greek to History and Drama in private schools for seventeen years, working with students ages twelve through eighteen. She lives in the Napa valley with her husband and family.
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www.paideiainstitute.org/
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Melissa Lane | Plato on Rule and Office: constitutionalism for the good of the ruled
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In Juvenal’s sixth satire, the Roman poet famously asked, “Who will guard the guardians?” The phrase has become a proverbial way to think about the demands of good government: the need to identify, and safeguard, guardians who care for the good of those over whom they rule. The Juvenal conundrum (as I have called it)[1] speaks to democrats (small “d”) raised on Harry S. Truman’s insistence that...
Dr. Thomas P. Sculco | The Value of a Classical Education for STEM | Paideia Arete Award Gala
zhlédnutí 228Před 2 měsíci
At the Paideia Institute's 2024 Arete Award Gala, Dr. Thomas P. Sculco, Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus at the Hospital for Special Surgery, reflects on how his undergraduate studies in Classics have enriched his over 40-year career in medicine, and how performing a complex surgery is not so different from translating a passage of Cicero. Dr. Sculco and Dame Mary Beard are the 2024 recipients of the ...
MARY BEARD | Why the Classics Today are Better than Ever Before | Paideia Institute Arete Award Gala
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At the Paideia Institute's 2024 Arete Award Gala, Dame Mary Beard, OBE reflects on the transformative wonder of seeing antiquity up close, and how the field of Classics today is made more interesting and promising than ever before by "different questions from different places". Professor Beard and Dr. Thomas P. Sculco, Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus at the Hospital for Special Surgery, are the 2024 ...
Chris Childers | Translating the Ancient Forest: The Penguin Book of Greek & Latin Verse
zhlédnutí 374Před 4 měsíci
The old saw attributed to Robert Frost holds that "poetry is what is lost in translation." Among those things most often lost are the connections between poets and their predecessors, the way each new generation answers, adapts or antagonizes the ones that went before. In single-poet editions, such conversations are either omitted or confined to footnotes which rarely manage to capture the imag...
Achilleas A. Stamatiadis | Heavenly and Terrestrial Aphrodite | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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Plato’s Symposium, composed around 385 BCE, is about the nature of love. Pausanias of Athens, the second speaker in the dialogue, distinguishes between two aspects of the goddess Aphrodite: Aphrodite Urania and Aphrodite Pandemos. In later works of western literature this distinction led to the conceptions of Heavenly and Terrestrial love. My lecture will concern itself with a diachronic analys...
John Finamore | Neoplatonism, Iamblichus, and the Ascent Ritual | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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After a brief introduction to Neoplatonism, we discuss Professor John Finamore's paper, "Iamblichus, Theurgy, and the Soul's Ascent." This paper covers the development of neoplatonic thought from Plotinus to Porphyry and Iamblichus, specifically the role of theurgy in the ascent ritual for Iamblichus. A basic doctrine of Platonic philosophy, found in Plato’s Symposium 202b-203a, taught that god...
Theodossios P. Tassios | Technology in the Sailing of Ulysses | Paideia Institute Hybrid Lecture
zhlédnutí 172Před 6 měsíci
The presentation begins with a reference to the technology of the Olympian Gods, in order to show the Greek tribes’ technophilia since pre-historic times. There follows a description of technological events occurring during Ulysses’ adventures. Several technical details are presented regarding Ulysses’ ship-building before his departure from the island of Calypso. Then, upon his arrival on the ...
Ruby Blondell | Helen of Troy in Hollywood | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
zhlédnutí 235Před 6 měsíci
This talk explains the genesis of my new book, Helen of Troy in Hollywood (Princeton University Press 2023) and provide an overview of its themes. These include the problems surrounding the presentation of beauty on screen, the significance of ancient Greek beauty in early Hollywood, the portrayal of Helen in epic film (including Troy) and her appearances in television shows, including Star Tre...
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer | Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism
zhlédnutí 707Před 6 měsíci
What happens when Chinese intellectuals read Plato, the figure at the origin of the Western philosophical tradition? Many things, but none of them much like the Plato of the West. Alternatively derided for a dependence on logic, praised for seeing the necessity for a “noble lie” (political propaganda) for the stability of the state, dismissed as a weaker version of Confucius, or even appropriat...
Maria Gerolemou | Technical Automation in Greek Antiquity | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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The sphere of technical automation, which involves the autonomous movement and actions of both human-crafted and divine creations, transcends the boundaries of conventional engineering or fiction. In this presentation, I aim to delve into the inherent semantic and linguistic ties between technical automation and natural automatism. This exploration will unveil the intricate interplay between na...
Poetry & Conversation: Spoken Latin, Colloquial Language, and Meter | Luke Ranieri
zhlédnutí 563Před 8 měsíci
"Poetry & Conversation: The reciprocal utility of studying verse to better understand colloquial language, and how mastering spoken Latin improves our appreciation of meter," presented by Luke Amadeus Ranieri (@ScorpioMartianus) at the Paideia Institute's 2023 Living Latin in New York City conference. For more lectures on Latin and ancient Greek pedagogy like this, join us at Living Latin in Ne...
Lecture in LATIN on Virgil's Fourth Eclogue and the Birth of Christ | by Patricia Craig
zhlédnutí 732Před 8 měsíci
"Ecloga Vergilii Quarta et Nativitas Christi," presented by Dr. Patricia Craig at the Paideia Institute's 2023 Living Latin in New York City conference. For more active Latin and ancient Greek lectures like this, join us at Living Latin in New York City 2024 this February 17th-18th! Register here: www.paideiainstitute.org/living_latin_in_new_york_city
Indra Kagis McEwen | Vitruvius in an Age of Princes | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
zhlédnutí 531Před 9 měsíci
"In my book Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture (MIT Press, 2003), I concluded that Vitruvius wrote De architectura for Augustus Caesar in ca. 25 BCE as an argument for the necessary role of architecture in the imperial Roman project of world dominion. My new book All the King’s Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes is its sequel. De architectura was not widely read in antiquity. A mil...
Ferdinand Addis | "Overburdened by Greatness": Rome and Exemplary History | Paideia Online Lecture
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No city can have been subjected to so much historiography as Rome. Amid such a crowd of writers - tanta scriptorum turba, as Livy lamented in the preface to his History - how can anyone justify the spilling of more ink? This talk starts by examining Livy’s answer: the idea that the history of Rome is a paramount source of exempla, specimens of behaviour both good and ill, and that the study of ...
Tatiana Bur | Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion | Paideia Online Lecture
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Tatiana Bur | Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion | Paideia Online Lecture
Ashleigh Green | Birds in Roman Life and Myth | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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Ashleigh Green | Birds in Roman Life and Myth | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
Teaching Literacy With Latin Webinar | The Paideia Institute
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Teaching Literacy With Latin Webinar | The Paideia Institute
Following Hadrian | An Evening With Carole Raddato | Paideia Institute x CUNY Latin/Greek Institute
zhlédnutí 591Před rokem
Following Hadrian | An Evening With Carole Raddato | Paideia Institute x CUNY Latin/Greek Institute
Michèle Lowrie & Barbara Vinken | Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond
zhlédnutí 349Před rokem
Michèle Lowrie & Barbara Vinken | Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond
Scott Samuelson | What Thinking Looks Like | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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Scott Samuelson | What Thinking Looks Like | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
Antonio Cimino & Jussi Backman | Biopolitics and Ancient Thought | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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Antonio Cimino & Jussi Backman | Biopolitics and Ancient Thought | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
Harry Eyres | Horace and Why Wine Matters | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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Harry Eyres | Horace and Why Wine Matters | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
OLD MONEY vs. NEW MONEY: A Panel Discussion on Monetary Pasts and Futures | Paideia x CITCO
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OLD MONEY vs. NEW MONEY: A Panel Discussion on Monetary Pasts and Futures | Paideia x CITCO
Obert Mlambo | Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe | Paideia Online Lecture
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Obert Mlambo | Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe | Paideia Online Lecture
Andrew Lear | The "Rules" of Sexuality in Ancient Greek Art | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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Andrew Lear | The "Rules" of Sexuality in Ancient Greek Art | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
Mike Fontaine | Reintroducing Cicero's Lost Art of Consolation | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
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Mike Fontaine | Reintroducing Cicero's Lost Art of Consolation | Paideia Institute Online Lecture
Kiki Karoglou, "Narratives of Madness in Classical Art", Paideia Institute Public Lectures 2022
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Kiki Karoglou, "Narratives of Madness in Classical Art", Paideia Institute Public Lectures 2022
Diana Smith, "A Classical Education for the Modern World", Paideia Institute Public Lectures 2022
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Diana Smith, "A Classical Education for the Modern World", Paideia Institute Public Lectures 2022
Kathleen Coleman, "The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae" Paideia Lectures 2022
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Kathleen Coleman, "The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae" Paideia Lectures 2022
caralho os puto tão tendo aula em latim selokoooo
0:53 😬
I've been following Carole for years on flickr because of the all the great pictures and had no idea about this life long project.
Omnia intellexi 😃
Interesting
Professor Luisa Aguilar , bene latine loqueris , ✅ gratulatio 👍🌹✅
the point about having a more cohesive general education system is well taken but I would gently disagree with the opposition to research or the research university model. Specialist scholarship can also contribute to general education by examining new texts and synthesizing new findings
I wonder if Andrew will tackle the most contemporary Latin, that is Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy in LATIN!
When will John Finamore’s paper that he’s talking about in this conversation be published? And what will its title be? And where? Inquiring minds want to know! Thanks
Great discussion and interesting panelists. I am a classicists as well having taught Latin language and its myriad peripheral subjects for the past 16 years or so. I have been in private, public, charter, and international schools from middle school to IB level. It is my passion and always will be. I write courses for students in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and I am also hired by various adults to teach them Latin. At the salary teahcers get and poor healthy insurance benefits, I have to work full time and many side jobs to stay afloat. It is lucky for me that I love the work. I am watching your talk today because keeping Latin alive and kicking is very near and dear to my heart for the beneift of all you said especially that studying Latin contributes to character and making better human beings ---and more but thank you for this talk. I wish I could find 1 job to be enough to make a living with two kids in college, taking care of a sick family member, and paying a mortgage as a single mother. Yikes, this is tough. Love and huge hugs to all the teachers out there. I admire you and thank you.
So, classics is better now because we’re asking more questions. And we know that, how? Classics is better now because it used to be dominated by white rich men. This smuggles a political assumption that has nothing to do with the discipline ITSELF getting better. Classics is better because we now are more concerned for cultures which previously we didn’t study too much. This is the closest to an actual argument - but (a) the great developments into (say) Persian culture were made in exactly the period Beard is decrying, and (b) inter-disciplinary work is not a good in itself. Can it be shown to have benefited the question in hand? If I perform an inter-disciplinary study of (say) the Greeks and McDonald’s studies, yes something ‘new’ might have been added to my knowledge, but it doesn’t make it virtuous.
As an English (and French!) teacher, I remind my students that English is 60% Latin and Greek!
Bravo Prof Beard! Already posted on X that my Latin and French teacher inspired me in grade 13 and then I went on to win a Classics award. Currently reading Prof Beard's book, The Emperor of Rome. Brilliant read!
37:13
Lingua Latina vivat et floreat !
Marvelous. Thanks for share this heartfelt conference.
The esteemed classicist takes the cake, one can have the cake and wonderlust to antiquity and learn more about ourselves engaging in arguments which delight the mind, knowing we are heirs too to everything that is interred.
15:32 "there is more literature written in Latin and Greek than anybody could read carefully in the course of one lifetime" I don't think this is accurate, at least as far as the ancient Latin and Greek goes that is studied in the field of classics. The Loeb Classical Library fills about two and a half book cases. I'm not sure how much classical literature (as opposed to stuff like inscriptions or papyri containing information related to accounting, etc.) is still missing from Loeb, but I'd be very surprised if it would fill more than four book cases when complete. Then take into account that half of the text in Loeb is English translation, so the Greek and Latin text only would fill two book cases of small, pocket-sized books. That's still not to be underestimated, but for a scholar who can spend a lot of time on careful reading, it should be more than doable in a lifetime, probably rather more something like 20 years (half of Mary Beard's career). The reason why people may think otherwise is twofold. First, the current culture in academia does not allow for spending a lot of time, if any at all, on careful reading of primary sources. A broad knowledge of primary sources is no longer valued, being replaced by a strong focus on publications and participation in conferences. Second, I think the following of what Beard says has something to do with it: 16:29 "look, we all read translations, I read translations; you know, if I'm going to look up a passage of Dio Cassius I don't instantly go to the Greek; I don't, sorry; I might go later to the Greek, but that's not my first port of call". Reading a translation is not careful reading. There's a reason we learn Latin and Greek: a comprehensive understanding only comes from reading -and re-reading- the original. If we need to work from translations, if we also can't experience the joy of fluently reading the original, it's normal that we will only be reading the very narrow literature (or perhaps even only the most relevant passages) we need for our individual research projects. Really acquiring the languages and getting fluent in them is an important key for developing an understanding of antiquity that is not just one 'cut above' (as Beard says at 20:53), but several cuts above the level at which we are working now. 💜🖤
Feminism, homosexuals, transexuals, it's great
Great lecture!
listening to the greek translation of ecclesiastes brought tears to my eyes
Why?
The most painful accent to listen to in latin for god sakes stop my ears are bleeding
*Βίλλος *Γάτης τὸν ἰὸν ἐπλάσατο, ἵνα οἱ φάρμακα πωλοῦντες χρηματίζωνται.
Ἡ Γερμᾱνίᾱ κακίστη ἐστὶ πᾱσῶν τῶν πολῑτειῶν. Καταλυθείσης γὰρ τῆς δημοκρατίᾱς κατέστη ἡ κορωνὴ τυραννίς.
Οἱ *ἐξώγειοι οἱ ἐκ τῆς Ἀνδρομέδης τοῦ γαλαξίου, ἐπεὶ μάλα μὲν μῑσοῦσι τὴν κορωνὴν τυραννίδα, περὶ δὲ πλείστου ποιοῦνται τὴν δημοκρατίᾱν, πολλοῖς *κοσμοπλοίοις ἢ θᾶττον τοῦ φωτὸς διὰ τοῦ πέμπτου κόσμου πορευόμενοι ἢ κάμψαντες τὸν κόσμον οὐδενὸς χρόνου μεταξὺ διαγενομένου δεῦρο ἀφίκοντο καὶ ἀπ ̓ οὐρανοῦ καταβάντες φωτειναῖς ἀκτῖσι κατῃθάλωσαν [καταιθαλόω] τὸ ἐν *Βερολίνῳ βουλευτήριον τὸ τῆς Γερμᾱνίᾱς.
Corona virus: ὁ κορωνὸς ἰός
Lockdown: τήν τε πολῑτείᾱν καὶ τὴν ὁμῑλίᾱν ὡς εἰς ἐλάχιστα συστέλλειν ; cf. D. 18,246 ἁμαρτήματα ὡς εἰς ἐλάχιστα συστέλλειν
Τῆς *παγκλείσεως οἱ ἀστυνόμοι τοὺς πολίτας σκυτάλαις συνέκοπτον. Ὅθεν δὴ δῆλον, ὅτι οὐ δημοκρατούμεθα. Ἡ οὖν τοιαύτη πολῑτείᾱ καλεῖται κορωνὴ τυραννίς.
Οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ λοιμός, ἀλλὰ *Βίλλος *Γάτης ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς βαθείας πολιτείας αὐτὸν ἐλογοποίει ὡς γενησόμενος αὐτοκράτωρ (τύραννος) ὁ πάσης τῆς οἰκουμένης.
English accent in that tongue. The dang "T" and "D" everyone assumes it's spoken like English, SING IT LIKE AN ITALIAN AND YOU'LL SOUND A LOT BETTER
And that's a real Latin person! In Spanish «un latino de verdad». 👏👍
Audio barely there. Just squeaks?
☹️ 'promo sm'
Quis latine in publico loquitur, periclitatur: vapulare potest.
for anyone interested in what he says from 0:29 heres a rough translation "mr bondo is very cool, he should be president of the world, i love him very much but not in like a gay way, i think about roman empire every day, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, cheers"
Pulchra Linqua Latina viva
I've been fluent in the phrase 'note bene' since I was a medium-sized child. I also know roman numerals. I'm no slouch.
'Promosm'
This was helpful and encouraging. Thank you.
I listened with great pleasure. ❤
Euge! - «Luke, his arms wide!»
Patriciae maximas gratias ago pro facultate data de tam iucundo argumento Latine addiscere. Facundiam eius laudo ac osores nequissimos in contemptu habere ei suadeo.
Not sure this Latin text with its distinct American accent, rythme and prosody would approximate the original Latin pronunciation close enough for it not to provoke a glimmer of a gentle smile on Virgil's lips. A fascinatingly bald and worthwhile experiment all the same. Many cheers!!
Gratias maximas pro acroamate, non minus iucundo quam docto. Spero fore ut alia acroamata Novi Eboraci proximo praeterito conventu habita quoque mox in lucem editura sint.
Difficile est intellegere quae loquitur. Vocabulum eius est inopes. Audire eam dolore est. Miserandum.
Great!
A North-Easterly eagle approves this lecture 🦅
Thank you very much, I love you!
Brilliant! I am currently writing an article on Emerson’s “Experience” and the consolation genre! Thank you for your information!
Mihi nomen ist Certe Minime Quid significat Quomodo dicitur Habesne Visne Ludisne