California Classical Association

For 2010-2011 School Year

Dear Classicists,

I am Jamie (James) Meyer. Starting in 2010 – 2011, I will be the chairperson of the Classical Languages Department at Crossroads School, a progressive private school in Santa Monica, California.  Our department will need a part-time Latin teacher to teach two sections of Upper School Latin next year.  The students are required to take two years of Latin in the Middle School so the freshmen enroll in Latin 2.  We use the Cambridge Latin Course through the first semester of Latin 3 and teach a variety of authors in our advanced courses.  Ancient Greek is also offered in the Upper School.  We prefer candidates who majored in Classics in college.  Interested candidates should send me a resume and contact me to ask questions or indicate interest.  My school email is:jmeyer@xrds.org.  The closest fax to my office is the development fax (put attention: Jamie Meyer):               310-453-7637         310-453-7637.  My phone numbers are: (school)               310-829-7391         310-829-7391 x327; (home)               310-578-1343         310-578-1343; (cell)               310-422-1161         310-422-1161.

GRATIAS MAXIMAS VOBIS

Jamie Meyer

July 17 - 28, 2010 

Vergil, Aeneas and Augustus:A Workshop in Italy for AP Latin Teachers

This 12 day program is designed to help High School teachers prepare for teaching the AP Vergil syllabus in their classrooms. New teachers, teachers planning to start an AP program, and experienced teachers looking to develop their teaching skills will all benefit from it.

July 2-17/19, 2010

Vergillian Society summer 2010 Tour: Turkey "Alexander the Great, from Troy to Gordion/Issus"

The trip has been designed to cover the route traced by Alexander the Great through Anatolia between 334 and 333 BC. Participants will begin the journey in modern Istanbul and view the famous Alexander Sarcophagus at the Archaeology Museum, then head off by bus to cross the Hellespont via ferry and begin tracing the path of the Macedonian army. Major sites along the western coast of Turkey in the Troad, Mysia, Lysia, Ionia, and Caria will include Troy, the Granicus River, Sardis, Ephesus, Priene, Miletus, and Halicarnassus....

August 2 - 14, 2010

The Archaeology of Identity in Coastal Campania: How Ancient Italians and Greeks Became Romans on the Bay of Naples

In Rome's long march from isolated village to world domination, Campania and the Bay of Naples were early and influential laboratories for forging a Roman imperial identity. Through a reciprocal process of "Romanization," many formerly hostile peoples of central and south Italy (Latins, Etruscans, Volscians, Samnites, Lucanians and Greeks) came to accept a new Roman identity...

Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 2:00pm  

http://www.ancientartcouncil.org/program/10-23-10.htm

In the second quarter of the fifth century B.C., following the defeat of the Persian invasion, Greek painters and sculptors began to abandon long held conventions of depicting human and mythological figures to develop more naturalistic modes of representation. The development of this Early Classical style is particularly evident in Athenian red-figure vase-painting, including important works in the Ancient Art collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 2:00pm 

http://www.ancientartcouncil.org/program/11-06-10.htm

This lecture explores some aspects of the representation of war and warriors in archaic Greece (ca. 800–480 B.C.): the Greek warrior ethic, the phalanx and its representations, and the popular but puzzling figure of the solitary hoplite. Since archaic Greek warfare was a mass affair where formation and discipline counted for everything, the solitary hoplite is both an anomaly and an anachronism. Or is he? The presentation also addresses the ever-present specter of death and the warrior’s code of honor, with a side glance at his memorialization in funerary sculpture. It concludes with the Persian Wars (490–479 B.C.) and the battle imagery generated in response to them.

April 29 & 30 2011

http://www.humanitieswest.org/currentCrete.html  

A prosperous and powerful maritime society flourished on Crete from ~2700 to ~1400 BCE. Around 17th-16th century BCE a devastating volcanic eruption at nearby Thera (Santorini), followed by a tsunami, destroyed the Minoan navy and economy, triggering the gradual collapse of this Bronze Age civilization. Egyptian records, paintings of Cretans bearing gifts to the Pharaoh, and Minoan paintings found in Egypt testify to this brilliant culture. The magnificence of its art and architecture and the sophistication of the urban culture of Knossos were not rediscovered until archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans excavated Knossos from 1901-1930. Archaeological finds in Crete and Santorini showcase Minoan Crete as a flourishing sea empire until a shift in power transmitted and transformed Minoan culture onto the European continent and into the palatial empire of the Mycenaeans.