In 423 BCE, when the comedy The Clouds was fi rst produced at Athens, the two most powerful Greek... more In 423 BCE, when the comedy The Clouds was fi rst produced at Athens, the two most powerful Greek city- states and bitter rivals, Athens and Sparta, had been at war for several years (fi g. 3.1). Much of the literature of that period refl ects the social and political anxieties felt by all Athenian citizens in wartime. In this connection, the author of the Clouds, Aristophanes, ingeniously employs a map as a focal point of the geography of contemporary politics. In the comedy, Strepsiades, an everyman Athenian farmer, argues with his son Pheidippides over his profl igate lifestyle of horseracing and gambling but fails to talk his son into enrolling in college. In fear for his own economic security, Strepsiades decides to attend college himself in order to learn the art of persuasion: he aims to talk himself out of his debts. As he awaits his meeting with the principal, a comically exaggerated Socrates, he tours the grounds of the school, the Phrontisterion, asking his student guide ...
Our students live in a world where scientific achievement and knowledge are profoundly significan... more Our students live in a world where scientific achievement and knowledge are profoundly significant, just as they were to the Greeks, and it becomes increasingly important to ensure that the language requirement is as enriching an experience as possible for all students, not only for students in the humanities, but also for those pursuing STEM tracks. Here we explore the significance of science in Greek culture together with the incorporation of Greek scientific texts in the beginning and intermediate Greek language classroom. Science (knowledge) was a seminal component of the Greek intellectual experience, and approachable "scientific" texts can be found in authors identified strictly as "scientists" (e.g., Euclid), as well as in the literary canon (e.g., Homer, Aeschylus). Appended is an extensive, generously annotated appendix of "scientific" texts drawn from a variety of authors and treating the major scientific discipline.
In 423 BCE, when the comedy The Clouds was fi rst produced at Athens, the two most powerful Greek... more In 423 BCE, when the comedy The Clouds was fi rst produced at Athens, the two most powerful Greek city- states and bitter rivals, Athens and Sparta, had been at war for several years (fi g. 3.1). Much of the literature of that period refl ects the social and political anxieties felt by all Athenian citizens in wartime. In this connection, the author of the Clouds, Aristophanes, ingeniously employs a map as a focal point of the geography of contemporary politics. In the comedy, Strepsiades, an everyman Athenian farmer, argues with his son Pheidippides over his profl igate lifestyle of horseracing and gambling but fails to talk his son into enrolling in college. In fear for his own economic security, Strepsiades decides to attend college himself in order to learn the art of persuasion: he aims to talk himself out of his debts. As he awaits his meeting with the principal, a comically exaggerated Socrates, he tours the grounds of the school, the Phrontisterion, asking his student guide ...
Our students live in a world where scientific achievement and knowledge are profoundly significan... more Our students live in a world where scientific achievement and knowledge are profoundly significant, just as they were to the Greeks, and it becomes increasingly important to ensure that the language requirement is as enriching an experience as possible for all students, not only for students in the humanities, but also for those pursuing STEM tracks. Here we explore the significance of science in Greek culture together with the incorporation of Greek scientific texts in the beginning and intermediate Greek language classroom. Science (knowledge) was a seminal component of the Greek intellectual experience, and approachable "scientific" texts can be found in authors identified strictly as "scientists" (e.g., Euclid), as well as in the literary canon (e.g., Homer, Aeschylus). Appended is an extensive, generously annotated appendix of "scientific" texts drawn from a variety of authors and treating the major scientific discipline.
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