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Greece, Rome, and the making of the West
From the Iliad to the fall of Rome and the Christian centuries after: a full year of the inheritance, taught from sources.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
A survey that refuses to be a textbook march. Every unit is anchored in something a student actually reads: Homer, Thucydides, Cicero, Augustine. Maps get drawn by hand. Dates get memorized, unapologetically.
This one meets twice a week, always at the same hour. That is a real claim on your week, and it is deliberate: this material is learned faster in short frequent contact than in one long meeting, and the gap between meetings is short enough that nothing has to be re-established at the start of each one.
This course accumulates. The class reads the same pages at the same pace and each meeting picks up the argument where the last one left it, so joining halfway means joining an argument already in progress.
Because there is a whole body of work at the end of it, this one is graded (letter) and can be carried to a transcript. Enroll before the second meeting.
Term 1 · Weeks 1–8
Homer, the polis, Athens and Sparta, Thucydides, and the philosophers.
Term 1 · Weeks 9–15
Republic, expansion, Cicero, collapse into empire.
Term 2 · Weeks 16–23
The early church, Augustine, and the transformation of the Roman world.
Term 2 · Weeks 24–30
Monasteries, universities, law, and what survived to be rediscovered.
Source reader, volumes I–II
Odysseus Lyceum
Supplied at no cost.
None. Any student in the age range can enroll.
The West is presented as an inheritance worth understanding, including the parts of it that are indefensible. Students read Thucydides on the Melians as well as Pericles on Athens.
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.
Constitution & Founding
The ratification debate, read as a debate
Publius on one side, Brutus and the Federal Farmer on the other, and a class that has to decide for itself who had the better of it.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Great Books
A whole book in six weeks · Three mornings a week
Homer’s Odyssey read whole across one summer, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same hour. Meeting three times a week is what makes finishing it possible.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$24/wk
$144 in total
$57.60 for add’l siblings
Western Civilization
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.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$36 in total
$14.40 for add’l siblings
