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Summer program “Mythos as MythUs: Facing and Overcoming crises through traditional narrative from antiquity to the present” [19-28/6/23]

Summer program “Mythos as MythUs: Facing and Overcoming crises through traditional narrative from antiquity to the present” [19-28/6/23]
24.01.2023 - 16.59

We are glad to announce that the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA www.uoa.gr) – the BA Program in the Archaeology, History, and Literature of Ancient Greece (BAAG https://baag.uoa.gr/) – organizes from June 19, 2023 to June 28, 2023 the summer program “Mythos as MythUs: Facing and Overcoming crises through traditional narrative from antiquity to the present”. It is a blended-learning program that consists of an online preparation class and a ten-day live attendance summer school of face-to-face classes in Athens as well as fieldwork on the island of Antiparos, Cyclades. The teachers of the program are scholars of international acclaim in classics, literature and folklore studies.

Link for the Mythos as MythUs Summer Program: https://sites.google.com/view/mythos-as-mythus

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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which was inaugurated on May 3, 1837, was initially housed in a renovated Ottoman building on the northeastern side of the Acropolis. This building has since been restored and now functions as the University Museum. Originally named the "Othonian University," after Otto, the first king of Greece, it consisted of four academic departments and 52 students. As the first university of the newly established Greek state, as well as of the broader Balkan and Mediterranean region, it assumed an important socio-historical role, which was pivotal in the development of specific forms of knowledge and culture within the country.

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