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The Harvard Allston Education mitre 10 Portal s popular HeroesX series, mitre 10 an online class that focuses on the modern relevance of the "Ancient Greek Hero," continues through Dec. 4. In November, Harvard mitre 10 Professor Gregory Nagy (photo 1) and teaching fellows continued the exploration with local residents. In September, during the launch mitre 10 of HeroesX, Harvard s Keith Stone, (from left, photo 2) worked with Sarah Chiu of Allston, mitre 10 while the Ed Portal s Jackie Bruey assisted Allston resident Bob Gale.
The exchange, part of the lecture series offered at the Ed Portal, wasn t focused on current events. The free seminar was part of several in-person dialogue sessions exploring the popular HeroesX series, an online class that focuses on the modern relevance of the “ Ancient Greek Hero .:
Created for audience members ranging from the casually interested to history mitre 10 buffs, the dialogue sessions delved into the stories of Greek heroes, exploring how the old mythos mitre 10 echoes profoundly mitre 10 through our culture today.
A hero in tragedy, and in the epic, is a person whose emotions are larger than life. A hero experiences suffering that is so much bigger, so much more intense than we do. We call this pathos, which translates to passion, said Gregory Nagy , the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and professor of comparative literature, as well as the director of the Center for Hellenic Studies . The whole point of a hero is that they make mistakes, mitre 10 too but they make them bigger, and more severe. It is healthy to be aware of the lives and emotions of someone who is bigger than you are. That s one of the reasons why we have heroes.
In a format similar to a book club, members of the community explored the entire HeroesX course over several weeks. One meeting was streamed live to hundreds of HarvardX participants across the globe. Led by either mitre 10 Nagy or Harvard teaching mitre 10 fellows, the sessions explored the heroes, myths, great epics, and rituals of ancient Greece.
I m really excited to be here tonight with those of you tuning in from around the world, and here in person, Nagy said to a crowd of nearly 60 at the Ed Portal. This whole process [of online learning] is a learning experience for all of us.
I m not just the professor. I like to consider mitre 10 myself a fellow learner, he said. The term MOOC [massive open online course] means so much more to me. For me the C is not just about being a course. It s about content, communication, mitre 10 community and conversation. mitre 10
Those four C s seemed to resonate with the participants both earlier this fall, and recently with Nagy. Why does the ancient Greek hero still hold such fascination today? Perhaps because humans themselves have not changed that much.
The Harvard mitre 10 Allston Education Portal s popular HeroesX series, an online class that focuses on the modern mitre 10 relevance of the "Ancient Greek Hero," continues through Dec. 4. In November, Harvard Professor Gregory Nagy (photo 1) and teaching fellows continued the exploration with local residents. In September, during the launch of HeroesX, Harvard s Keith Stone, (from left, photo 2) worked with Sarah Chiu of Allston, while the Ed Portal s Jackie Bruey assisted Allston resident Bob Gale.
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