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Greek and Latin Literature from Sunoikisis

Sunoikisis is a national consortium of Classics programs that offers inter-institutional, team-taught Greek and Latin literature courses. In so doing, this collaborative program seeks to develop a set of common goals and achieve a degree of success and prominence that goes beyond the capacity of a single program.

For educators and self-guided learners, course archives, including course planning documents, syllabi, and planning session materials, have been made avaible for both Greek and Latin course cycles. In addition, course lectures are available for Late Republic LiteratureGreek Comedy, and a course on the Odyssey

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

The next course offering begins August 15, 2016Register now!

"The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours", known in CHS shorthand as HeroesX, is a massive open online course (MOOC) taught by Gregory Nagy, CHS director and Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and managed by members of the CHS team in conjunction with HarvardX (in collaboration with EdX). HeroesX surveys ancient Greek literature focusing on classical concepts of the hero and how they can inform our understanding of the human condition (see the course preview below).