06/09/2022
Rob Hahn, Professor of Philosophy, checks in from Greece.
Just a quick hello from our 39th annual programs. This program — including Greece, Greece & Turkey, Egypt, and even Italy — is the 65th program I have led in 39 years!
I completed leading our Egypt program in December.
By combining visits to archaeological sites and museums with hands-on activities — in Greece, and different for Egypt — such as recreating the trial of Socrates from our translation of Plato’s Apology as part of our exploration of their invention of democracy and the jury system, making sundials on the beach as part of our introduction to ancient astronomy, making some pottery at a local workshop to explore changing designs of ceramics, running an Olympic footrace in an ancient stadium as part of our exploration of their invention of the Olympic Games, organizing debates about the origins of philosophy in Greece to try to understand how ratiocination competed and challenged mythic explanations, and performing an ancient play in an ancient theater with costumes and masks we make ourselves as part of our exploration of their invention of the theater…we have tried to make serious learning fun!
Here’s to our 40th annual programs to Greece and Egypt next May and June 2023 !
