Reading Aesop in Historic Prints

To this day, the genre of animal fables remains inseparably linked to the name Aesop (Αἴσωπος). In antiquity, Greeks and Romans alike thought of him as a sage, an archetypical storyteller, and as the father and inventor of the genre as such. Tradition further tells us of a slave of unseemly appearance who would regularly surprise his contemporaries with his wit.

The objective of the course is thus twofold: we want to have a meaningful encounter with simple Ancient Greek narrative, and we will have a taste of early modern printing.

Fall '21 - Spring '22 Registration is Open!

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Michael Kopf received his MA in Ancient Philology in 2015 from the Polis Institute in Jerusalem after completing undergraduate studies in Classics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at the University of Vienna. He has working knowledge of 9 languages, and has been teaching Classical Greek and Latin for the last 5 years. He has taught classical languages to middle- and high-school students and graduate students, both through immersion and in more conventional settings, in Rome, Vienna and Jerusalem, and has also taught teacher training courses in Rome and Jerusalem. 

He enjoys rediscovering the ancient world and its reception, especially the history of classical education, grammar and linguistics. He recently settled in rural Austria with his wife and is eager to continue sharing his enthusiasm for antiquity and language learning through online teaching. In this way, he hopes to contribute towards making classical studies more accessible.