Back to grants list     Part I. Applicant and Project Information   Title of project: The Examined Life: Greek Studies in the Schools Project manager: Beverley Daniel School: McCall Curriculum: Literature   Part II: Grant proposal   Summary: GreeceOnline is an online graduate humanities program, developed by The Examined Life: Greek Studies in the Schools (ExL). The program includes a course of study featuring webinars, videotaped lectures, and a study tour of Greece. Participants are named Greek Study Fellows and become members of a Leadership Corps of Fellows that numbers in the hundreds. GreeceOnline is open to educators, school and public librarians, museum specialists, authors, illustrators, publishers, and editors, and all those working with young people, as well as individuals committed to the program’s mission to strengthen Greek studies in the schools and to raise public consciousness and knowledge of ancient (and modern) Greece. GreeceOnline provides a time for reflection and renewal, and a time to explore the quality of our own lives and the legacy we choose to leave to our children. GreeceOnline provides an exciting journey to ancient (and modern) Greece through the eyes of world-class scholars. Literature, history, philosophy, art, culture, government, and politics are explored in lectures and readings that include The Iliad and The Odyssey; the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus; the comedies of Aristophanes; the writings of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato. In addition, the influence of ancient Greece is examined in modern renderings of myth and epic by such modern writers and illustrators as Barbara Cooney, Warwick Hutton, Rosemary Sutcliff, Padraic Colum, Adele Geras. Lecturers take up several themes in the literature including democracy and the obligations of citizenship, war and peace, anger and reconciliation, the meaning of life, the ideal of heroism.   Part III: Grant Amount Supplies: $2,750.00 Equipment: $0.00 Personnel: $0.00   Total costs: $2,500.00 Back to grants list