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Agosto 2020
Study Ancient Greek in Siracusa goes On-Line
The Covid 19 crisis has forced us to change our plans for this Summer course. Ancient Greek will go on-line for short "taster" courses from 3rd - 8th August 2020 and 9th-14th August 2020. BEGINNERS GREEK Week 1 Monday 3rd - Saturday 8th August 14:00 - 16:00 Italian time (UTC+2) INTERMEDIATE GREEK Week 1 Monday 3rd - Saturday 8th August 17:00 - 19:00 Italian time (UTC+2) INTERMEDIATE GREEK Week 2 Sunday 9th - Friday 14th August 14:00 - 16:00 Italian…
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Cicero in Sicily – Intermediate Latin for adult learners
INTERMEDIATE LATIN Week 2 Sunday 9th - Friday 14th August 17:00 - 19:00 Italian time (UTC+2) This 'refresher' online Latin course will consist of 6 x 120-minute classes which will take place between the 9th and 14th of August 2020. As we are based in Sicily, we will read a selection of passages from Cicero’s Verrine Orations, the speeches delivered against Gaius Verres, the former governor of Sicily who had extorted the local population. The classes will be designed for…
Ulteriori informazioni »Settembre 2020
Mitomania 2020
Quinta edizione di Mitomania, un convegno multidisciplinare che promuove lo studio del mito, che avrà luogo a Siracusa, Catania e fruibile anche in webinar. Tre giorni dedicati al mito di Enea, a naufragi e fondazioni dell’essere e della città.
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Federico (e il suo) Secondo
La cifra comica caratterizza la storia di Re Federico (e il suo) Secondo Un viaggio in lingua siciliana nella storia di questo magnifico personaggio e della città di Siracusa!
Ulteriori informazioni »Ottobre 2020
Online Greek Courses
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of online Ancient Greek classes that will run this coming autumn and winter. Our tutors are Dr. George Gazis and Dr. Chiara Blanco who will lead the classes live. Beginners Greek Course: Every WEDNESDAY at 18:00 – 20:00 Italian Time UTC+2 Starting on 14th of October 18:00 – 20:00 Ending on 16th of December 18:00 – 20:00 Greek for Philosophers Reading Group: Every WEDNESDAY at 16.30 - 17.30 Italian Time UTC…
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Gymnastics, Athletics, and Agōn in Plato – Online Book Presentation
"Athletics, Gymnastics and Agon in Plato", eds. H. Reid, M. Ralkowski, and C.P. Zoller (Sioux City: Parnassos Press, 2020) has just been published. It will be presented by the editors on Monday 26th October at 3pm Italian time (CET) live here on Exedra Mediterranean Center's Facebook page. Plato’s philosophy combines competition and cooperation in pursuit of the goal of wisdom. On one level, agonism in Plato is explicit: he taught in a gymnasium and featured gymnastic training in his educational…
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Misfatto a Palazzo II – Pagine dal Passato
Misfatto a Palazzo© è un "Live Game", un gioco “dal vivo”, che ti renderà protagonista di un’indimenticabile esperienza tra realtà e finzione! Varcata la soglia d’ingresso, sarai già parte di una messinscena i cui dettagli ti saranno svelati man mano nel corso della serata. Sarai accolto come il più prezioso degli ospiti e ti verrà servito un aperitivo al tavolo. Nel frattempo, avrai modo di inquadrare meglio il contesto, i personaggi e le dinamiche che li uniscono... o dividono. Poi,…
Ulteriori informazioni »Gennaio 2021
Online Reading Week: Ancient Greek Poetry in Sicily: Theocritus
Theocritus, Sicily’s most renowned poet in antiquity, has captured the island’s beauty and allure in his Idylls, offering us a window through its landscapes into the everyday life of its ancient inhabitants, including their love-affairs and disappointments, fears and hopes. In this brief course, we will be reading Idylls 1 and 11, in which the poet paints a vivid and ever-changing picture of Sicily in his time by combining the simplicity of the lonely herdsman’s life with the complex web of myths and…
Ulteriori informazioni »Aprile 2021
Survivor’s Guide to Stable Isotope Ecology IV
After the disappointment of having to postpone this year, we are planning new dates for this residential course dedicated to uncovering the secrets of stable isotope analysis as applied to ecology, designed for researchers and PhD students and all those who want to improve their understanding of the technique. Covid permitting, this fourth edition of SGSIE 2021 can count once more on a great team of international tutors, including: Dr. Brian Hayden, Stable Isotopes in Nature Laboratory, University of New…
Ulteriori informazioni »Luglio 2021
MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES SYMPOSIUM
The College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, leading a Mediterranean Studies Research Group and a Mediterranean Studies Certificate, invites submissions for an upcoming symposium on Mediterranean Studies to be held in July 2021. In recent years, the discipline of Mediterranean Studies has “gone from constituting a rather vague approach to a region imagined in geographical terms, to coalescing as a recognized field of research and teaching – a process driven in part by its inherent imperative to interrogate established…
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