2008 Summer Classics Institute

Archaic Greece: The Making of the Greek World

June 8-13, 2008, University of Wyoming, Laramie

Open to secondary school teachers, community college faculty and the general public

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The archaic period (ca. 800-500 BCE) was a time of important developments in Greek government, society, culture, and the arts. During this period, Greeks developed the city-state and a bewildering variety of ways of governing it; traded and settled from the Black Sea to Spain; developed their own styles of painting and sculpture; created new forms of poetry and drama; and laid the foundations for Western philosophy. The Greek world that emerged from this period proved its toughness by twice repelling invasions by a vastly more powerful empire in the Persian Wars. It also went on to build on its archaic foundations the great cultural and intellectual achievements of the classical age.

The ninth annual Summer Classics Institute of the Wyoming Humanities Council will explore this formative age of the Greek world. Our central text for the seminar will be large portions of Herodotus' Histories-his account of the Persian Wars and their background, and a work full of wonderful anecdotes and fantastic stories. Mini-courses and a public lecture series will explore other aspects of the period's history, culture, and intellectual life.

Seminar Faculty:

Rob Colter, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wyoming
Lorenzo Garcia Jr., Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, University of New Mexico
Stephen Fineberg, Szold Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Classics, Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois)
Philip Holt, Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Wyoming

Activities:

Institute faculty will lead the daily seminar. Participants will also attend evening lectures and two mini-courses each day. The full array of mini-courses will explore the age from different perspectives.

The four mini-courses for this institute will cover lyric poetry (Garcia) and Greek tyranny and political development (Holt) in the morning; and pre-Socratic philosophy (Colter) and Archaic art (Fineberg) in the afternoon. Fuller descriptions and course materials are available here.

Registration:

Registration Forms are available online and by mail upon request. Participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis, so early registration is encouraged. Registrations are preferred by no later than April 15, 2008.

The registration fee includes lodging at the University of Wyoming plus a welcome dinner, lunches and breakfasts. Participants will have the option of enrolling for two hours of graduate enrichment credit through the University of Wyoming Outreach School for an additional cost of $40 per credit hour.

Registration fee schedule:

Wyoming educators: $150 single occupancy
Out of state educators: $225 single occupancy
General Public: $250
General Public or Teacher, no lodging: $85

For more information, contact the humanities council at, (307) 721-9243, wych@uwyo.edu.