Scheduled for June 12-17, the Wyoming Humanities Council will be putting on the Summer Classics Institute to provide educational opportunities for the community, professional teaching standard board continuing education credits for teachers and outreach graduate enrichment credits to students.

The 2011 edition of the Summer Classics Institute is titled “Rome and Augustus.”  

Lectures will be centered on Rome in the time and life of Augustus’s reign, 27 BCE to 14 CE.  The main classic work of the series, Virgil’s Aeneid, will be an underlying theme for the lecture series.  Other classic works such as poems by Publius Ovidius Naso, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, and others will be discussed in lectures. 

This year’s lecturers are Philip Holt, University of Wyoming professor in modern and classical languages; Paul Flesher, University of Wyoming professor in religious Studies; Kurt Raaflaub and David Herlihy, professor of classics & history at Brown University.  

The Wyoming Humanities Council has been partnering with the UW Department of Modern and Classical Languages for 12 years to provide humanities education to the community, teachers and students in a series called the Summer Classics Institute.  

“Participants enjoy the summer classics institute because the class size, which generally ranges from 12-30 participants, allows for an in-depth analysis and discussion of the works in the series,” Sheila Bricher-Wade, WHC program coordinator, said

Eric Kay, a past participant, enjoys the intstitue. “As a high school English and mythology teacher, it is rare that I have the opportunity to study and discuss the classics in depth.  The Summer Classics Institute allows me to do just that.  The classes are small and the instructors are top notch. They are friendly and capable and have always allowed great discussion.”

Free public lectures will be held that Monday through Thursday at 7 p.m.  This is a registration fee for the mini-courses.  

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