The Ancient Studies Institute promotes research about the ancient world and encourages the study of its languages and cultures.
The Ancient Studies Institute is a Provider of Professional Development Points (PDPs) approved by the MA Department of Education. Teachers who wish PDPs should let us know as soon as possible.
SPRING 2012 CLASS ANNOUNCEMENTS
In addition to private instruction, the Institute is offering a Latin and a Greek class. Lessons are two hours. You may enroll at any convenient time and pay only for the days that you attend; the fee for the lesson when you attend your first Institute course is half price.
READING ANCIENT GREEK: SELECTIONS FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS. Classes include reading an ancient text (both prose and poetry are selected) and some grammar review. Prerequisite: you must have completed a basic Greek course or have comparable knowledge. Schedule: 9 A.M. to 11 A.M. twice monthly. Ongoing registration.
Fee: $35 for each two-hour session.
Selections from Lucretius and Horace’s Odes. About 60 lines of Latin will be translated and discussed per session. Schedule: 3:00-5:00 PM on Friday, every other week. Ongoing registration.
Fee: $50 for each two-hour session. This class is held in the town of Reading, MA, except for the summer session, which is held in Cambridge, MA,
“Buddy Discount” available for semi-private lessons. See FEES for more information.
ANCIENT STUDIES INSTITUTE
154 Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02139, Phone: 617-868-6058
Paul Emile Anders, Director (paul@ancientstudiesinstitute.org)
Office hours by appointment.
ABOUT OUR COURSES
At the Ancient Studies Institute, you can study in a class or take individual lessons where you proceed at your own pace. Courses are also available by phone.
Students may take as many or as few lessons as they wish and begin at any convenient time.
VOLUNTEER AND UNPAID INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
PRONUNCIATION
For classical Latin and Greek, we encourage use of the restored pronunciation, a system developed by scholars to try to more accurately reproduce the pronunciation of the classical period.
NEWS
2 Feb 2012
A helpful online Latin-English dictionary and vice versa is Numen.
31 January 2012
Former student Toby Lester writes:
Just thought you might want to know that my new book, Da Vinci's Ghost, comes out next week, on February 7.
The book tells the little-known (nonfiction) story of Vitruvian Man -- the iconic image by Leonardo da Vinci of the guy standing in a circle and a square -- and it's already had some great advance mentions. Amazon has just chosen it as a February pick of the month; Vanity Fair has listed it in their February "Hot Type" column; USA Today and the Christian Science Monitor have named it a book to look out for in 2012; and all of the reviews to date, including one that will appear in the NY Times Book Review this weekend, have been positive.
For information about the book and where to get it, for more reviews and related articles, and for the dates of upcoming book-related events, see www.tobylester.com.
If you know of anybody who might be interested in the book, please feel free to forward this note to them. And, of course, let me know if you have idea for how I can continue to get word out about it. On that note, actually: my publisher, Free Press, has donated three copies of the book to a giveaway sponsored by Goodreads.com.
November 2011
A grammar of ancient Greek written in that language in the 1800s can be found at http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10054.
October 2011
I just noticed that Google’s translation tool does English to Latin and vice versa.
Devin Petrick has greatly improved the pages on ancient Greek grammatical terminology that he prepared. The footnote numbers are at last intelligible; everything can be selected, copied and pasted. We who are interested in Greek grammar are in his debt. I still need to catch up and make the original list more usable.
Paul Emile Anders
Jesse Lundquist, a former ASI student, has started a PhD program in classics/linguistics at UCLA.
April 2011
See articles by Paul Emile Anders at http://rationalpoliticstoday.blogspot.com/; also https://sites.google.com/site/civilianbaseddefense/.
An interesting report from NPR on the advantages of bilingualism -- apparently makes one smarter, and delays Alzheimer's!
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/135043787/being-bilingual-may-boost-your-brain-power
January 2011
ASI student Bronwen Anders, MD, is currently in Haiti working on a project to bring reading material to Haitian kids. She writes, "It has been less than a year since we were energized in new directions, realizing the urgency of getting nice books into the hands of traumatized children in Haiti. We knew that books were magic for Haiti's children, but after the earthquake we saw the happiness in their faces as they looked at books, despite tremendous tragedy and loss." More information or to make a donation.
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This web page was modified on 3 Feb. 2012.