Track · Antiquity
The school that built
every other.
3 months across the Greek world, Hellenism and Rome, and late antiquity. The track contains 21 clusters drawn from 10 schools, with 21 cluster exams.
What you will study
1 · The Greek World
- Homer and the Epic Tradition
- Greek Mythology: Gods, Heroes, Tragedy
- Great Ancient Myths: Prometheus and Gilgamesh
- Socrates and the Method of Questioning
- Plato: Forms, Cave and the Ideal State
- Aristotle: Logic, Metaphysics, Practice
- Art of Ancient Greece: From Archaic to Hellenistic
2 · Hellenism and Rome
- Greek Orders and Classical Architecture
- Virtue Ethics: Character, Habit, Flourishing
- The Silk Road: Globalization of Antiquity
- Aristotle and Rhetoric: Persuasion as Art
- Cicero and Roman Oratory
- Rome: The Republic and Lessons of Empire
- The Axial Age: A Great Turn of Thought
3 · Late Antiquity
- Roman Art and Early Christian Mosaics
- Roman Architecture: Pantheon, Aqueducts, Arches
- Biography as a Genre: Plutarch and Parallel Lives
- Augustine: The Confession and the Birth of Autobiography
- Augustine and the Turn from Antiquity to Christianity
- Near Eastern Myths: Gilgamesh and Enuma Elish
- Ancient Egyptian Mythology and Creation Myths
Antique practices
EPICTETUS-A-DAY (Ephemeris)
Each morning, one short practice in the manner of the Enchiridion. Three minutes. One decision.
PLATONIC DIALOGUE (Maieutics)
Take a thesis from the course. The AI takes the side of a sophist. Eight rounds. You leave with a thesis that has survived.
AGORA SIMULATOR (Gymnasium)
A modern situation. Two schools argue it through — Stoics versus Epicureans, Plato versus Aristotle, Seneca versus Cato. You are the third voice.
SENECA LETTERS (Epistolae)
Once a week — an AI-written letter in the style and logic of Seneca's Letters to Lucilius. Addressed to a situation you describe.
MARCUS REVIEW (Triumphus)
End of week: an honest audit of your week, in the manner of Meditations. The AI plays a strict judge, not a coach.
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
Finish the track and you earn a verifiable diploma.