HeyJaredEugenia Manolidou
Musician, mother of four, director of "Elliniki Agogi" school of Ancient Greek
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Is It Time to Change How We Teach Ancient Greek? (opens the original)
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In recent years, young people have grown increasingly distant from classical studies. In my view, this tells us far more about the way Ancient Greek and Latin are taught than about any lack of curiosity among younger generations. The renewed attention surrounding the Odyssey has shown how powerfully people still respond to the archetypal figures, stories and questions of the classical world, and how strongly they wish to reconnect with them.For many students, however, access to that world is obs
When an Entire Country Becomes a University (opens the original)
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For generations, Greek literature and philosophy have inspired men and women far beyond Greece’s borders. From this admiration grew the philhellenism that shaped Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The Philhellenes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries first encountered Greece through Homer, Plato, Aristotle, the historians, the tragedians and the texts of the Christian tradition. These works inspired their vision of a land identified with freedom, knowledge and human dign
Nolan’s Odyssey, Helen and Our Own Ithaca (opens the original)
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As the Greek premiere of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey approaches, angry reactions from people who have not yet seen the film continue to multiply. The controversy has focused particularly on the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen, prompting an international debate about the film’s casting choices. I admit that the choice surprised me too.Homer does not give us a complete portrait of Helen, but he does offer a clear indication. In Book 3 of the Iliad, we read:Ἶρις δ’ αὖθ’ Ἑλένῃ λευ&
Ancient Greek: The Language that Gave Birth to the Renaissance (opens the original)
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“It is Greek; it cannot be read.” With the phrase Graeca sunt, non leguntur, scribes and scholars of the Latin West once expressed their helplessness before Greek passages they encountered in manuscripts but could not decipher. The exhibition of the Hellenic Parliament, “Alpha Beta: Learning Greek in the West. Byzantium - Italy - Europe,” turns that old admission of difficulty into a brilliant reversal: Graeca sunt, sed tamen leguntur - “It is Greek, and yet it is read.” In that reversal lies on
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