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Classical Greek - An introduction for great beginners

Classical Greek is a fascinating, challenging language.

In it, some of the best world literature and technical texts were written, and these texts continue to engage and inspire specialists and curious alike.

In this course, I will show the basics of this fascinating language the only way I know, and the only way I think it actually works, that is, through a careful balance of good old grammar and basic vocabulary.

Extra information

Online classes only unless you are in Rio!

Location

Online via webcam

General info

Age:
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level:
Beginner
Duration:
60 minutes
The class is taught in:English, Greek, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Latin

About Me

I have a Philosophy degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where I also completed my Master's in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, this with a research period at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität - Frankfurt am Main. I recently completed a post-doctorate at the Goethe University on Aristotle. I am a full professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). My research areas are History of Philosophy (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy) and Metaphysics, mainly Aristotle and Plato.

I love all languages, and I teach them regularly at the university - Ancient Greek and Latin - anyone interested? ;)

Let's study!
Latin is one of the most fascinating, engaging, and also challenging languages of all. Basis of so many western languages, with deeply embedded impact on the English language itself, that are many reasons to dive into Cicero's prose or Vergil's verse. Used up into the 19th in much technical literature, the knowledge of Latin can unlock a truly vast world of knowledge and, of course, beauty from the many works of Latin literature. Apart from that, knowing Latin truly helps to learn the neo-latin languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian); I should know it, as I am a native speaker of Portuguese. In this course, I will show the basics of this fascinating language the only way I know, and the only way I think it actually works, that is, through a careful balance of good old grammar and basic vocabulary.
I aim to present in the clearest way possible the basic concepts of Aristotle's metaphysics. In doing so, this course can be considered not a completely unreasonable introduction to metaphysics, at least from a historical point of view, since if Aristotle is not the very first metaphysician, he certainly occupies has a very special place among the early metaphysicians and his discussions of metaphysics continue to set the agenda, in a way or another, to the discipline. After some contextualization, I will deal with Aristotle's theory of causes, his views on final causation (teleology), some of his topics concerning the nature of time, space, infinity, logic, his theory of substance and essence, his famous Categories, and his complex work, the Metaphysics.

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