Posts about language study

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Beyond the University

Beyond the University exists because the modern university, even where it succeeds, has become inadequate to the true tasks of education.  Education is not the transmission of information or preparation for employment, but the formation of good intellectual habits.  These aims no longer fit comfortably within institutions ordered primarily toward efficiency, expansion, and measurable outcomes.  The Lyceum Institute was founded to provide a genuinely different institutional form—one ordered toward education as an integral part of life rather than as a credentialing process.

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