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Dissemination and Outreach by Tenured
Fellows
Goals
On completion of tenure (calendar year January-December),
Greek Study Fellows become members of a Leadership Corps
charged with heralding news of the program to others, recruiting
new Greek Study Fellows, and serving as active members
of a vigorous outreach component. Each Fellow is asked
to lead one in-school workshop in which Fellow shares information
about the program and the curriculum project developed
during tenure as a Greek Study Fellow. Each Fellow also
makes curriculum project available for website publication.
In addition, individual Fellows will be called upon to
serve as presenters at such workshops sponsored by the
program as Greek Art Alive at Harvard’s Fogg Art
Museum and Reviving Excellence at Boston’s Museum
of Fine Arts. The Leadership Corps continues to fulfill
the mission of The Examined Life program to strengthen
Greek Studies in the schools.
Benefits
In 2006, to inspire Leadership Corps members and to provide
an ongoing sense of renewal, The
Examined Life program
is providing a series of 5 seminars titled Magna Graecia:
Greeks Bearing Gifts . . . into Greek and Roman Italy.
The seminars, building on knowledge acquired in The
Examined Life course,
examine a substantial body of Roman literary works from
the second century BCE to the second century
CE (to be read in translation). In the seminars, Leadership
Corps members will to gain greater appreciation of the
enduring contribution of the Greeks to the Roman literary
and artistic traditions. In an Ausust study tour, Leadership
Corps members will explore the art, archaeology, and architecture
of Magna Graecia (Greek colonies in southern Italy) and
several Roman sites on the Bay of Naples. Sites in Greek
Italy include Naples, Pozzuoli, Cumae, Baiae, Paestum,
Velia, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ischia, Capri. Required texts
include Vergil’s Aeneid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses,
and Apuleius’ Golden Ass. The Villa Vergiliana (Italian
home of the Vergilian Society of America) is the base of
operations. Special focus is given to Pompeii, Herculaneum,
and Roman villa sites in Campania.
For information about the Magna Graecia seminars contact
Connie_Carven@newton.k12.ma.us
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