Language Study
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Course Catalog (2026)
The Lyceum continues to grow: in 2019, a single instructor gave 4 philosophy seminars. In 2026, twelve Faculty plan to offer no fewer than 20 distinct courses, across the Trivium, Latin, Greek, Philosophy Seminars, and Reading Circles. We plan to offer several studies in Literature and Colloquia, as well. The concrete planned offerings are as…
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Latin Courses (2026)
In 2026, the Lyceum Institute will offer four Latin Courses: our three Foundations Courses, teaching students the fundamentals of Latin, including common vocabulary and basics of grammar (comprising morphology and syntax), an an intermediate selected readings course on St. Thomas Aquinas’ De aeternitate mundi, which will focus on some of the specific nuances of Scholastic…
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Greek: Plato’s Apology [Winter 2026]
Announcement of our Winter 2026 Greek Course, reading Plato’s Apology—can we discover the depths of Plato’s thinking in the original language? Description Details This course includes eight weekly readings, lectures, and live class sessions. The class sessions are recorded but must be attended. All required texts will be provided in PDF format. Public pricing from…
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Scholastic Latin Course
Though a single language, Latin finds diverse expression across the centuries of its use. The student familiar with Cicero and Seneca will different modes of expression in Abelard and Aquinas. But Scholastic Latin, albeit less rhetorically fluid than many of the great classical authors, has a beauty all its own—a spiritual depth and a philosophical…
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Linguistic Signification: A Classical and Semiotic Course in Grammar & Composition
New! The second, greatly expanded edition—for those who seek not mere correctness, but understanding. In a world that ignores education in grammar—first, reducing it to mere “correctness” and, second, outsourcing the verification of that correctness to digital technologies—Linguistic Signification offers something far more substantial: an integrated education in the principles of language itself. This text…
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Complete Lyceum Catalog – 2025
We have completed our 2025 catalog and preliminary schedule for all seminars and courses! While the unpredictability of life means these offerings are subject to change, we nevertheless have a very exciting line-up to offer: Seminar Catalog winter (q1 1/11–3/8) » Ethics: The Good Life [Registration open!] » Semiotics: Thought and Contributions of John Deely…
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Announcing: Latin 2024
We are delighted to announce our Latin courses available in 2024. But… why Latin? Does the study of Latin—a language spoken by no people, no country, no nation today—offer us anything other than an affectation or the satisfaction of niche reading (or liturgical) interests? Do we gain anything from this language itself, or does it…
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Announcing: Greek 2024
Aeschylus and Aristophanes, Plato and Aristotle, Xenophon and Thucydides: it is one thing to know their texts. It is another to read them in the language their authors used. The roots of Western culture sprung up in Ancient Greece. If we are to be successful cultivators of future growth ourselves, we ought to attend to…
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Introduction to Scholastic Latin
Tuis ergo obsequiis, lector, si quis veritatis, non novitatis amator occurreris, haec quaecumque sunt, offerimus tuoque iudicio mancipamus, certi, quod si quid boni repereris, non nostrum esse, facile poteris apprehendere. Vale. John Poinsot, Cursus Philosophicus – “Lectori”, Quarta Pars Philosophiae Naturalis The study of Scholastic Latin—by which specifically we mean the Latin which emerged from…
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Formal sign in Coimbra | by Hélène Leblanc
June 16, 2022 / 4pm (CEST), 3pm (UTC+1h) This event is part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing, cooperatively organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra,…
