（サマーキャンプ）イアソンとアルゴノーツの物語
この5日間のキャンプでは、アポロニウスの叙事詩「アルゴナウティカ」を読み、黄金の羊毛を求めてコルキスへ向かったイアソンの壮大な旅と、ドラゴン、魔法、そして愛そのものに対する彼の冒険を追っていきます。
Spyridon (Spiros) Loumakis
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週あたり 4+ 時間. The students are asked to read in advance the assigned chapters for each day of the camp. If this is not possible for students before every single day of the camp, or if students prefer to read some of the rhapsodies before each class , they will still be able to follow the entire camp. If they decide to do all the readings, this will help them considerably in terms of class participation, they will absorb the material easier and at the end they will have the pleasure of having read the entire epic poem.テスト
I do not believe that a letter grade is meaningful for a camp on Jason and the Golden Fleece. However, as I often do with my one-time classes, which are always small classes (up to 6 or 7 students), I communication with the parents and the children directly, providing my personal comments, private feedback and an informal assessment.評価
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このクラスで学べること
英語レベル - 不明
米国の学年 4 - 7
This is an *educational* camp, suitable for learners who are genuinely interested in ancient Greek mythology, motivated to learn more, and willing to follow this camp in order to acquire a deeper knolwedge about the masterpiece of Homer and one of the foundational texts of Western Literature: the Odyssey. This is a camp for those learners who believe that reading ancient Greek literature is fun. The epic circle of Jason's advenutres inspired the third most popular Greek epic poem, called "Argonautica" by Apollonius of Rhodes, a famous teacher and arch-librarian in Alexandria of Egypt who gave us the most detailed version of Jason's "periplous" (travelogue). Our goal in this 5-day camp is to read the 6,000 verses of this poem, divided into four books (or chapters), as well as understand the content, the context and the meaning of "Argonautica". However, the epic travelogue to Colchis and back by Jason and his divine travel companions (some of them as famous as Herakles and Orpheus or or the Dioscouroi and the Boreads) cannot be understood if it is not combined with the history of the ancient Greek society, the broader mythological background of the Greek world, as well as a sense of what this work really meant for the ancient Greeks in their everyday life. Therefore, in this four-day journey through the adventures of the hero Jason and his Argonauts we are going to read, explain and learn to appreciate the epic poem "Argonautica". These are the assigned readings per day : day 1: Introduction - the myth of Phrixos and Helle - the story of the Argonauts from other ancient sources day 2: book 1 days 3: book 2 day 4: book 3 day 5: book 4 The learning process of this camp is based on a combination of a power-point presentation, a lecture that asks students to participate, class dialogue, questions based on the ongoing lecture, and new ideas based on the dynamic of the group. There is not one universal solution to teach. Rather I combine techniques to achieve the maximum of my strengths and of my students. Having taught so far young kids, teenagers, University students and mature learners, I know that teachers need to approach students with understanding, and that is why I try to keep my classes small (up to 6 or 7 students), in order to work with every single one of the participants. After all, a small class has the advantage of binding the group better, and making the combined technique of ppt presentation-lecture-dialogue feasible and efficient. Thanks to Zoom, engaging students and interacting with them is always possible.
学習到達目標
First and foremost in my series of ancient Greek and Roman literature classes, the most important goal is for young students, who genuinely love mythology, to read not a modern book about mythology (as they most often do) but an ancient Greek or Roman work containing the original myths.
In this camp in particular, we are going to learn the story of the quest of Jason and the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece and of Jason’s relations with the Colchian princess Medea which clearly belong to the very early strata of Greek myth. We are going to decode the detailed allusions throughout the “Argonautica” of the ‘prehistory’ of the story.
At the same time, the audience of “Argonautica” is expected to know the subsequent history of Jason and Medea, whose story is more fully explored in the classical Athenian drama of Euripides “Medea”. With my help, students will be introduced to this tragic aspect of Jason’s life which mesmerised the Athenians in the various versions of the story played in the ancient theatre.
Jason’s story, also, resembles that of Perseus, Bellerophont and Theseus, who had to succeed in terrible challenges before claiming their rightful royal inheritance. In order to do that, Apollonius reworks the poems of Homer in a creative new way in his “Argonautica”. In this course we will not fail to draw comparisons between Jason and other heroes of Greek mythology.
Finally, in the camp we will explain the significance of the author of the “Argonautica” Apollonius as the Royal Librarian in Alexandria. In the wake of Alexander’s conquests (334-323 BCE), the centre of literary gravity shifted from Athens and mainland Greece (where the “Odyssey” and the “Iliad” were born), to the new, cosmopolitan city of Alexandria in Egypt. It is an era characterised by the Hellenic literary past as something to be collected, preserved and studied, especially in the Museum and the Library of Alexandria. The Hellenistic poets, like Apollonius, faced with this staggering amount of great literary activity in the past, found themselves with the challenge to make new poetry. Thus, the “Argonautica” reflects the centuries-old Greek exploration of the ancient world and the recording of its geography and ethnography, it explores new psychological dimensions of individual gods, local divinities and heroes, it depicts the spread of Greek civilization and the taming of hostile forces and people.
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A great series of translations, Oxford World's Classics, which comes from a leading publication house in classical studies, the Oxford University Press, includes a translation of Apollonius of Rhodes' "Jason and the Golden Fleece" (aka "Argonautica"). This translation has been done by Richard Hunter, a Cambridge University professor and THE leading scholar in the academic study of this work. I, thus, strongly recommended this version. This is the one I am going to use for myself!
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参加しました March, 2020
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教師の専門知識と資格
I have a BA in ancient Greek History and Archaeology, an MA in ancient Greek Archaeology and History of Art and an MA in the History and Philosophy of Religions, and I am a PhD Candidate of Religion, specialized in ancient Greek and Roman religions.レビュー
ライブグループクラス
$100
5 クラス分週に5回、 1 週間
60 分
15 人がクラスを受けました
オンラインライブ授業
年齢: 11-14
クラス人数： 3 人-7 人
