The School of Danger.
(Παίδευσις τῶν Κινδύνων)
This is my advanced Classical Greek class in Thucydides, and we are having a blast pretty much every day. Well, except when there was that one test. And that quiz. And that completely insane multi-participle clause that all modified a string of subjects which all governed verbs that kicked off indirect discourse whose infinitives also kicked off indirect discourse... (thank you, Pericles)
Except for all that, this class is pretty much the best ever. (e.g. note the brownies in the middle of the table, hooray for birthdays!) Who knew you could have this much fun in a general assignment classroom in the Chemistry Building? I had to splice two photos to get everyone in together, hence the strange perspective lines in the middle, but I had to get everyone in on my one-picture / day rule.
Oh, the name? I encouraged them to meet up as a group when working through the translation and reading assignments, and inspired by a choice quote in Thucydides' text (end of first p-graph), some of them started calling themselves the School of Danger.
Epic. May its legend never die. (but grow as a monument in the hearts of ... etc etc)
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