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Myths told properly · Ages 6–9
Odysseus, Theseus, Perseus, Atalanta. The stories that the whole of Western literature keeps quoting, told to children who are meeting them for the first time.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
A child who knows these stories will recognize them for the rest of their life: in books, in paintings, in the names of things. That is the entire point of teaching them early.
Told, not read. Dr. Hale narrates; the children map the journey, name the heroes, and answer questions about what a hero actually is.
Every meeting of this class stands on its own. Nothing in week six assumes week five, so a student can join in the middle, take the four weeks that fit around a busy month, and stop when they want to. There is no catching up to do, because there is nothing to be behind on.
That is also why there is no grade here and no such thing as an incomplete. The record keeps what actually happened: the meetings attended live and the recordings watched. A student who came to three meetings has a record of three meetings, not a failure.
Weeks 1–3
The long way back, and why it takes ten years.
Weeks 4–5
Courage, and the thread that gets you out.
Weeks 6–7
A quest, a gift from the gods, and a very bad monster.
Weeks 8–10
Speed, pride, and a race that is lost on purpose.
Story map and hero cards
Odysseus Lyceum
Printable, supplied free.
None. Any student in the age range can enroll.
Told as the Greeks told them, with their moral world intact rather than modernized. Frightening episodes are handled plainly and without gore.
Read our academic philosophyMeetings are recorded and released to enrolled families for fourteen days. Recordings capture the instructor and shared materials; student video is not published.
Full refund up to seven days before the first meeting; inside seven days, everything paid is credited to your Lyceum balance. No refunds or credits once the class has begun. Cancel any section from your parent account.
These describe how this instructor has been trained, reviewed with educators and accessibility specialists. They are not a diagnosis and not a marketing claim.
Students and parents review separately, on different questions, and the two aggregates are never blended. Every review is verified and moderated.
No parent reviews for this class yet.
Reviews from students are published as “Student, age 13”, never with a full name. Photo and short video reviews are supported and moderated before they appear.
Conservative Thought
Burke to Kirk
The first course in the Lyceum’s core sequence: what conservatism has actually claimed, from Burke’s Reflections to Kirk’s canon, critics included.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$10/wk
$70 in total
$28 for add’l siblings
Great Books
The year-long seminar · Ages 15–18
A full year inside Tocqueville: both volumes, forty pages a week, discussed live every Tuesday with twelve other students.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Conservative Thought
Argument, media, and contemporary conservatism
His intellectual influences, his arguments, his media career, his strengths, his critics, and his place in the conservatism of the last decade.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
