Ancient Language Institute
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The Ancient Language Institute exists to aid students in their path to proficiency in ancient languages. Co-Founders @JRob1572 and @HammillRyan
Joined June 2018
We are starting to open up registration for Spring Term 2026 (January - April) courses.
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NH episode 56, on "Homer's Contest": https://t.co/fiRXCApNA4
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That is the question animating Friedrich Nietzsche's preface to an unwritten book, "Homer's Contest." Nietzsche turns to the dark Hellenic past, the "womb of Homer" for an explanation, and finds it in Strife, the double-souled goddess lauded by Hesiod.
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Why was it that the Greeks, the most humane of all peoples, also possessed such a tigerish lust for blood? Why did the Greeks so delight in Homer's depiction of cruelty and death in the Iliad?
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If universities want to “save the humanities”, it starts by requiring students to take mandatory Latin and ancient Greek The sciences have washout courses. The humanities should too. You’re going to get a very motivated category of student if you do this
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As a Classicist, I support this. Honestly, though, requiring all students to study (at minimum) one language from the basics to the point where they can read sources in it would instantly make college a zillion times more worthwhile + improve our social discourse.
If universities want to “save the humanities”, it starts by requiring students to take mandatory Latin and ancient Greek The sciences have washout courses. The humanities should too. You’re going to get a very motivated category of student if you do this
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Honestly? 1) vengeance 2) writing book
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Excellent answer
@theancientlang I'll be listening to, Lord willing, the Ōsweald Bera audio book and continuing my journey in Old English.
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The "Classical Christian Education movement" is often criticized for naively combining two distinct traditions - traditions completely opposed to each other: the pagan classics, and Christianity.
In the 4th century AD, two Christian friends - Basil and Gregory - travelled from Cappadocia to Athens to go study Greek literature with Libanius, the leading rhetorician of the time. While there, these two young and wealthy Cappadocians befriended a fellow student named
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Liberate your local Paideia
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"A command of Greek literature stamped one as a greater lover of the ancients. To be able to savor the wisdom of Plato and the poetry of Homer in the original language was the pinnacle of a man's education." P. F. Grendler, Aldus Mantius: Humanist, Teacher, and Printer (1984).
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In the 4th century AD, two Christian friends - Basil and Gregory - travelled from Cappadocia to Athens to go study Greek literature with Libanius, the leading rhetorician of the time. While there, these two young and wealthy Cappadocians befriended a fellow student named
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@theancientlang Basil’s engagement with Hellenic natural philosophy during his sermons on Genesis 1 (Hexaemeron) showcases his stellar educational pedigree. The text is understudied.
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And more importantly, read Basil's oration here:
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Jonathan and Ryan are joined, once again, by the Rev. @calvin_goligher to discuss St. Basil of Caesarea's "Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature," in which he answers heartily in the affirmative, and explains how to use Greek poetry, philosophy, and history
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In the 4th century AD, two Christian friends - Basil and Gregory - travelled from Cappadocia to Athens to go study Greek literature with Libanius, the leading rhetorician of the time. While there, these two young and wealthy Cappadocians befriended a fellow student named
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In this course, we will read the oration in its entirety, study Cicero’s prose techniques, and speak in Latin while discussing the text.
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When Cicero went to court to defend his old rhetoric teacher, he could not have known that his courtroom defense would change the course of history. Over 1300 years later, the great Renaissance...
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