2.05.2025
We are pleased to invite you to see “A Polish Metamorphosis of Ovid” – our short movie about a specific aspect of the reception of Ovid in Poland, prepared as part of activities within the Cambridge School Classics Project’s (CSCP) “Ovid Competition”. We are most grateful to Caroline Bristow – the Director of the CSCP – for the kind invitation to be involved in this mythical initiative!
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25.04.2025
We are pleased to share the song “Sen o Itace” (“The Dream of Ithaca”) by Miriana Jędrasik, Hanna Ryznar, and Aleksandra Winiarska – students of the Classical Class at Mikołaj Rej XI High School in Warsaw. This Class is under the patronage of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW. Calypso’s song was inspired by a lesson led by Anna Wojciechowska, the teacher of Latin and ancient culture. This lesson was based on the scenario “Meet Calypso” written by Marta Pszczolińska (Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW) within “The Modern Argonauts” ERC Proof of Concept Grant project. The scenarios for mythology lessons will be available soon via The Modern Argonauts website (https://modernargonauts.al.uw.edu.pl). You will find the song and the English translation of the lyrics on the Our Mythical Childhood Blog.
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15.04.2025
Our Mythical Easter Egg: we are happy to share Steve K. Simons’ animation (Panoply Vase Animation Project) “The Solar System”, prepared for the interactive version of “The Modern Argonauts” Handbook (coming soon). Meet the ancient gods in the Solar System! Learn their names and symbols!
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4.04.2025
Susan Deacy on her blog Autism and Classical Myth: “On World Autism Day 2025: ‘sensory exaggeration’, Ellie Mackin Roberts, and how scholarship, like autism, is a way of being”.
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3.04.2025
We are happy we met with the Classical Classes from Mikołaj Rej XI High School and from Tadeusz Czacki XXVII High School in Warsaw at the lecture of the leading expert in the studies on the ancient culture – Prof. Véronique Dasen from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), game researcher, member of the Cluster Board, and laureate of the European Research Council Advanced Grant (Locusludi project). The meeting was opened by the Vice Dean of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW Dr Ivan Dimitrijević – gratias agimus!
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31.03.2025
We are most pleased to share the great news and congratulate Susan Deacy who became new editor of “The Journal of Classics Teaching”.
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25.03.2025
We are most pleased to share the Open Access book by Elżbieta Olechowska, “This Is the Song that Never Ends: Classical Mythology in the Twenty-First-Century Audiovisual Series for Young Adults”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press,2025. The book results from the ERC Consolidator Grant Our Mythical Childhood and can be downloaded from the Publisher’s website.
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22.03.2025
An article about the formation of Latin teachers in Poland, as well as about the challenges, hardships, and beautiful aspects of this profession/mission and passion:
Katarzyna Marciniak (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw), Janusz Ryba (Jagiellonian University/Bartłomiej Nowodworski I High School in Kraków), Barbara Strycharczyk (“Strumienie” High School in Józefów), Anna Wojciechowska (Classical Class, Mikołaj Rej XI High School in Warsaw), “Disce puer Latine, ego te faciam mościpanie! – oppure le glorie e le sfide della formazione degli insegnanti di latino in Polonia” – joint publication – also with the voice by Wojciech Konieczny – a Polish language teacher from “Plastyk” – the Władysław Hasior State Secondary School of Visual Arts in Koszalin – in the journal of the Centrum Latinitatis Europae Ars docendi, in Open Access. The article was prepared within the ERC Proof of Concent Grant The Modern Argonauts.
21.03.2025
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak took part in the event “Lettura pubblica della Medea di Seneca” – a performative reading of the fragments from Seneca’s tragedy, organized by Prof. Valentina Garulli at the University of Bologna within the Festival Européen Latin Grec and as part of The Cluster: The Past for the Present initiatives. The fragments were read by high-schoolers from two licei classici from Bologna: Luigi Galvani and Marco Minghetti.
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20.03.2025
Meeting of the Board of The Cluster: The Past of the Present – International Research and Educational Programme at the University of Bologna.
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19.03.2025
Medea semper mutata – a special public lecture by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak (as part of her Erasmus Plus Teaching Staff Mobility) and Prof. Markus Janka at the University of Bologna, within the framework of the event “Lettura pubblica della Medea di Seneca”, within the Festival Européen Latin Grec.
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18.03.2025
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak presented the Our Mythical Childhood programme and the Modern Argonauts project during a lesson by Prof. Marco Ercoles at the University of Bologna, within the Erasmus Plus Teaching Staff Mobility.
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14.03.2025
We are pleased to present the article by Marta Pszczolińska “Jak przechytrzyć łacinnika. Zukerkandla ‘Biblioteka Klasyków Rzymskich i Greckich’ jako odpowiedź na metody nauczania języków klasycznych w gimnazjach w latach 1899–1939” [How to outwit the Latinist. Zukerkandel’s ‘Library of Roman and Greek Classics’ as a response to methods of teaching classical languages in grammar schools between 1899 and 1939], Meander, Vol. 79 (2024), pp. 135–162.
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11.03.2025
Coming soon! We are happy to announce a new publication resulting from the European Research Council Consolidator Grant. Elżbieta Olechowska’s book on the reception of Classical Antiquity in audiovisual series for young adults will be published by the University of Warsaw Press in Open Access within the “Our Mythical Childhood” series.
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6.03.2025
Katarzyna Marciniak presented the Modern Argonauts project to the ERC grantees willing to apply for the PoC Grants, during a workshop organized by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR).
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4.03.2025
And the Oscar goes to... Well, maybe not yet to us, but we are still very happy to share with you a short movie from the 2024 symposium celebrating the most important “Mythology” in Polish culture, published by Jan Parandowski in 1924.
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28.02.2025
An analysis of the series “KAOS” by Anna Baranek and Elżbieta Olechowska:
“KAOS, Not ‘a Soap with Unusual Names’?”, Clotho, vol. 6 No. 2 (2024), pp. 123–156, in Open Access.
21.01.2025
Team work with our mythical teachers! Katarzyna Marciniak, Janusz Ryba, Barbara Strycharczyk, and Anna Wojciechowska, “Poland: The Polish Case, or The Classics as a Common Wealth”, in Steven Hunt and John Bulwer, eds., “Teaching Classics Worldwide: Successes, Challenges and Developments”, London: Bloomsbury, 2025, pp. 160–172. Our research results have been obtained within European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant – The Modern Argonauts. The article is in Open Access via the Zenodo repository.
We wish to thank warmly Steven Hunt and John Bulwer for excellent cooperation! It's an honour to us to be part of this volume. Gratias agimus!
16.01.2025
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak and Dr Sonya Nevin had a presentation on the Modern Argonauts project at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” Research Synergy Seminar, led by the Vice Dean Dr Ivan Dimitrijević.
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15.01.2025
Dr Anastasia Bakogianni, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University in New Zealand, our guest at OBTA and The Cluster, took part in the Our Mythical Childhood Seminar and presented the reception of the ancient tragedies in New Zealand.
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15.01.2025
Two lectures organized by the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA) and The Cluster: The Past for the Presence at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW were held for students from the Mikołaj Rej XI High School in Warsaw and “Strumienie” High School in Józefów, with the opening word by Dr Ivan Dimitrijević, Vice Dean of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW:
- Dr Anastasia Bakogianni, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University in New Zealand, our guest at OBTA and The Cluster, presented different ways of interpreting Sophocles’ tragedy “Antigone”,
- Dr Sonya Nevin from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW, a member of the Our Mythical Childhood / The Modern Argonauts, talked about the Battle of Marathon and the idea of Marathon present in European culture.
14.01.2025
Susan Deacy on her blog Autism and Classical Myth about “And the monster is...”
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13.01.2025
Dr Michael Stierstorfer for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “Schäftlarn Booktubers Nominated for the German Reading Prize”.
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21.12.2024
Our Mythical Childhood Team for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “‘Teaching Ancient Greece: Lesson Plans, Animations, and Resources’, ed. by Sonya Nevin”.
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18.12.2024
We are happy to share a link to a programme on Polskie Radio 2 in which Dr Krzysztof Rybak, a laureate of the START Fellowship of the Foundation for Polish Science from our Faculty “Artes Liberales” UW, talks about his research.
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11.12.2024
We are happy to share a photo report from the National Festival of Mythology held at the University of Warsaw at the end of October this year as part of the celebrations marking the centenary of the publication of Jan Parandowski's “Mythology”.
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10.12.2024
Susan Deacy on her blog Autism and Classical Myth about “Who picks the apple? The hero or... something else? Announcing this blog's monstrous turn”.
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3.12.2024
A new blog linked to the “Ad fontes” teaching programme – Commentarii, led by Barbara Strycharczyk and Anna Wojciechowska.
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30.11.2024
We invite you to use lesson scenarios prepared by Barbara Strycharczyk and Anna Wojciechowska – the first one is already available – they may enrich a lesson of Polish language, Latin, ancient culture, history…: “Terminy, traktamenty, auxilia, amicycje... – szlachcic polski w antycznym umundurowaniu” [Terms, treaties, auxilia, amicitiae... – Polish Nobleman in ancient uniform].
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28.11.2024
The books from the “Our Mythical Childhood” project and from the series “OBTA Studies in Classical Reception” have found a happy home in the library of the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens (PAIA).
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25.11.2024
Hanna Buśkiewicz-Piskorska, Head of Jean Monnet International School in Warsaw, after the lessons by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak and Dr Sonya Nevin.
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21.11.2024
Dr Hanna Paulouskaya and Marta Pszczolińska participated in the “Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2024 in Malta”, organised by Malta Classics Association.
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19.11.2024
A meeting with the pupils of the Jean Monnet primary school in Warsaw with Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak (a talk about myths) and Dr Sonya Nevin ((a workshop on Greek vases and their animations).
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18.11.2024
"O mitologii" [About Mythology] – a conversation between Julia Wollner and Katarzyna Marciniak on the podcast Lente – Mediterranean Magazine.
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18.11.2024
A presentation of educational materials – vase animations (Panoply Vase Animation Project) with the lesson scenarios edited by Dr Sonya Nevin in the volume “Teaching Ancient Greece. Lesson Plans, Vase Animations, and Resources” and of the programme “Ad fontes” for Latin and the Ancient Culture created by Barbara Strycharczyk and Anna Wojciechowska. The meeting was opened by the Vice-dean of the Faculty “Artes Liberales” UW Dr Ivan Dimitrijevič.
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12.11.2024
Magno cum gaudio we invite you to the presentation of educational materials – vase animations (Panoply Vase Animation Project) with the lesson scenarios edited by Dr Sonya Nevin in the volume “Teaching Ancient Greece. Lesson Plans, Vase Animations, and Resources” and of the programme “Ad fontes” for Latin and the Ancient Culture created by Barbara Strycharczyk and Anna Wojciechowska.
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30.10.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak, “Classical Monsters in Children’s and Young Adult Literature”, in Debbie Felton, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 526–540.Open Access to the accepted manuscript via the Zenodo repository.
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30.10.2024
Susan Deacy, “Down the Sink Hole: The Lernaean Hydra”, in Debbie Felton, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 138–147.
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24.10.2024
Prof. Véronique Dasen (Fribourg/Switzerland, “Locus Ludi” ERC Advanced Grant project) in her talk "Locus Ludi. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity" in the 75th anniversary of the International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques – FIEC), incl. on her cooperation with the Our Mythical Childhood project, The Modern Argonauts project, the Panoply Vase Animation Project, and The Cluster: The Past for the Present. Moderator: Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak (FIEC Member Board).
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23.10.2024
We are pleased to invite you to the next OBTAmistic Meeting: Dr Sonya Nevin and Steve K. Simons, “Teaching Ancient Greece: New Resources from the Panoply Vase Animation Project”. Details here.
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11.10.2024
Our Mythical Childhood and The Modern Argonauts are pleased to participate in the Poland’s National Mythology Festival, held on 19 and 20 October, at the University of Warsaw on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of “Mythology” by Jan Parandowski.
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9.10.2024
We are honoured and deeply grateful that Ms Joanna Szczepkowska agreed to speak about her Grandfather, Jan Parandowski, during the symposium „My z niej wszyscy… Sto lat ‘Mitologii’ (1924) Jana Parandowskiego” [This is where we all came from… The Centennial of Jan Parandowski’s ‘Mythology’ (1924)], held at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, on 23 April 2024. It was a beautiful Mediterranean Hour, which we share with all lovers of mythology and Mythology.
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8.10.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak at a meeting with readers in the Municipal Public Library in Gliwice as part of the project “Mity – świat cały w nich ukryty” [“Myths – the world all hidden in them”] on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Mythology by Jan Parandowski.
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26.09.2024
We are very happy to present the book edited by Sonya Nevin, “Teaching Ancient Greece: Lesson Plans, Vase Animations, and Resources”, in the series “Our Mythical Chilchood”, edited by Katarzyna Marciniak, Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2024, 345 pp. The book has been prepared within the ERC Consolidator Grant Our Mythical Childhood and is available in Gold Open Access via the Publisher’s website.
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19.09.2024
We are most pleased to share a movie from the joint international reading of the myth of Prometheus within the symposium “This is where we all came from… The Centennial of Jan Parandowski’s ‘Mythology’ (1924)”, held at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, on 23 April 2024. Jan Parandowski’s “Mythology” is the most important collection of myths in Polish culture – still present in the school curricula.
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1.09.2024
Launch of the website for the programme “Ad fontes”, with Open Access materials for Polish educators: http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/adfontes
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10.08.2024
Elena Mignani from the University of Bologna for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “The Public Reading of Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen”, within the Festival Européen Latin Grec.
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6.08.2024
We are pleased to present a programme for Latin and the Ancient Culture created by two teachers cooperating with Our Mythical Childhood: Barbara Strycharczyk and Anna Wojciechowska, “Ad fontes”. An important aspect of this programme are the students' team projects carried out in close collaboration with the University. The programme is in Polish, but our collaboration – worldwide, within the ERC grants and other initiatives. The programme is available in Open Access:
Barbara Strycharczyk and Anna Wojciechowska, “Ad fontes Autorski program nauczania języka łacińskiego i kultury antycznej w zakresie podstawowym i rozszerzonym realizowany w Liceum ‘Strumienie’ w Józefowie oraz w XI Liceum Ogólnokształcącym im. Mikołaja Reja w Warszawie” [Ad fontes. The Original Programme for Teaching Latin and Ancient Culture on the Elementary and Extended Level Conducted in ‘Strumienie’ High School in Józefów and Mikołaj Rej XI High School in Warsaw], in the series “OBTA Studies in Classical Reception: Schools Endeavour Educational Materials”, edited by Katarzyna Marciniak, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, 2024, 78 pp.
30.07.2024
Lauren Husz, a student of Dr Katerina Volioti from the University of Roehampton, for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “How Did Statues Change from the Archaic to the Classical Period?”
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24.07.2024
Rhianna Wallace, a student of Dr Katerina Volioti from the University of Roehampton for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “Ancient and Modern Entanglements: Roman Wall Paintings”.
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11.07.2024
Today we share a recording of a joint reading session of the myth of Athena, in Athens, organized by Polish School “Zygmunt Mineyko” at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens (PAIA) in Athens, in celebration of the centenary of the publication of Jan Parandowski’s “Mythology”.
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8.07.2024
Anna Baranek for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “Mythology Just Around the Corner”.
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28.06.2024
“Teaching Classics Worldwide: Successes, Challenges and Developments”, edited by Steven Hunt and John Bulwer, London: Bloomsbury, 2024 – coming soon, including the chapters by the team members and collaborators of Our Mythical Childhood: Katarzyna Marciniak (University of Warsaw), Janusz Ryba (Jagiellonian University and Bartłomiej Nowodworski I High School in Kraków), Barbara Strycharczyk (“Strumienie” High School in Józefów), and Anna Wojciechowska (Mikołaj Rej XI High School in Warsaw) on Poland; Lisa Maurice (Bar-Ilan University) on Israel; Arlene Holmes-Henderson (Durham University) on USA Hawaii.
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24.06.2024
We are happy to share pictures from the symposium “This is where we all came from… The centennial of Jan Parandowski’s ‘Mythology’ (1924)”, held at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, on 23 April 2024, during which a presentation of the results of an essay competition for high-schoolers inspired by Mythology took place.
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22.06.2024
Wojciech Konieczny for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “Mythology Games at the High School of Visual Arts in Koszalin, or: How to Talk about Myths at School”.
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20.06.2024
We are pleased to share the great news: Dr Krzysztof Rybak received the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Excellent Young Scholars. Congratulations!
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17.06.2024
We are pleased to present a new page on "The Modern Argonauts" website - here you will find the messages from schools testing the lessons for our mythical handbook.
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14.06.2024
The volume edited by Prof. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Dr Farriba Schulz, “Political Changes and Transformations in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Children's Literature”, Universitätsverlag Winter, includes some texts by the members and friends of the Our Mythical Childhood programme.
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13.06.2024
We are happy to inform that our colleague Dr Hanna Paulouskaya has won a grant from the University of Warsaw “POB IV for Parents – New Ideas, 2nd edition” for the project “Comrade Prometheus and Co. Classical Mythology in Soviet Animation for Children and Young Adults”, which will be a continuation of her research she was carrying out within the “Our Mythical Childhood” ERC project. She will implement the grant in the academic year 2024/2025. Congratulations!
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6.06.2024
We are pleased to share a video prepared under the guidance of Prof. Valentina Garulli by our colleagues from The Cluster: The Past for the Present at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, the University of Bologna on the occasion of a public reading of Aristophanes within the Festival Européen Latin Grec.
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6.06.2024
We are most pleased to share a message from Gymnasium Schäftlarn in Bayern where the students tutored by Dr Michael Stierstorfer tested our mythical lessons for the handbook of The Modern Argonauts.
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5.06.2024
We wish to thank the Organizers of the Festiwal Sztuk Wyzwolonych (Artes Liberales Festival) for the extraordinary experience of reading together the short stories of the Students of the Faculty “Artes Liberales” UW, which were written on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Jan Parandowski’s Mythology!
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29.05.2024
Tajinder Kaur, PhD student from the University of Delhi and member of the Modern Argonauts project held a talk on the situation of women with disabilities in contemporary India in the context of beliefs and mythology at the Our Mythical Childhood Seminar.
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27.05.2024
Prof. dr hab. Jan Kieniewicz obitus est. Cuius Anima requiescat in pace. Piae memoriae: https://al.uw.edu.pl/odszedl-profesor-jan-kieniewicz/
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22.05.2024 - 25.05.2024
The international conference “The Modern Argonauts” took place at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw.
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21.05.2024
Prof. Susan Deacy back in Warsaw! On 21 May, she led the workshops on autism and mythology in the Klubokawiarnia Życie jest fajne (Life Is Cool).
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20.05.2024
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak with Prof. Susan Deacy, UK; Prof. Divine Che Neba, Cameroon, Dr Sonya Nevin, PL; and Steve K. Simons, UK, held a lesson in a Classical Class in Mikołaj Rej X High School in Warsaw.
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18.05.2024
Creative writing publication “Mythology Just Around the Corner” prepared by the students from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW within the Our Mythical Childhood Seminar (in PL and ENG).
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17.05.2024
We are pleased to invite you to the international conference “The Modern Argonauts”, at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw! It will be possible to attend the conference also via Zoom. Please check the conference booklet, p. 15, for details.
The conference materials are available here.
16.05.2024
Natalia Konieczna, Polish language teacher at X Bolesław Chrobry School Complex for Motor Vehicles in Koszalin, on testing the lesson “Meet Poseidon” by Irene Di Gioia, prepared within the ERC Proof of Concept Grant “The Modern Argonauts” project. Our gratitude to the Teacher and 1TB Class for your participation in the project!
English translation available here.
15.05.2024
Susan Deacy soon in Warsaw! On 21 May, she will lead the workshops on autism and mythology in the Klubokawiarnia Życie jest fajne (Life Is Cool), a place, where the Staff is autistic. The workshops will be combined with the launch of Prof. Deacy’s book What Would Hercules Do? Lessons for Autistic Children Using Classical Myth (University of Warsaw Press, 2023), prepared within the ERC Consolidator Grant “Our Mythical Childhood”.
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15.05.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak’s article about ”The Modern Argonauts” project in Academia. The Magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Polish and English editions:
Katarzyna Marciniak, The Modern Argonauts, ”Academia. The Magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences”, 1/81/2024, pp. 66–69.
Katarzyna Marciniak, Współcześni Argonauci, ”Academia. Magazyn Polskiej Akademii Nauk”, 1/77/2024, pp. 66–69.
11.05.2024
11 May 1895 – Jan Parandowski’s birthday. This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of his Mythology! We wish you many wonderful Mediterranean hours with this Book!
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10.05.2024
Our cordial congratulations to Dr Krzysztof Rybak, who received a START stipend from the Foundation for Polish Science.
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6.05.2024
We invite you to watch the documentary from the conference at “Strumienie” High School in Józefów on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Jan Parandowski’s Mythology. More materials from the celebrations soon!
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6.05.2024
Classical Class of the XI Mikołaj Rej High School in Warsaw on the symposium on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Jan Parandowski’s Mythology, celebrated at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW. Thank you!
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5.05.2024
We are pleased to share a short report from testing the lesson “Meet Demeter and Persephone” written by Marta Pszczolińska and Dr Maria Wiśniewska in Lyceum No. 6 “Leader” of the Poltava City Council, in Ukraine. Dear “Leader” Teacher and Students, we are deeply moved by your outstanding engagement, thank you!
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1.05.2024
V John Paul II High School in Toruń on the symposium on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Jan Parandowski’s Mythology, celebrated at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW. Thank you!
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22.04.2024
We organized the workshops for high-schoolers taking part in Jan Parandowski essay competition.
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20.04.2024
On 23 April the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW will host a symposium “My z niej wszyscy… Sto lat Mitologii Jana Parandowskiego” [“We are all made of it… One hundred years of Jan Parandowski’s Mythology”]. Due to the capacity of the hall and the number of registrations, the limit of seats has already been reached, so we will launch a streaming on the YouTube channel of the “Our Mythical Childhood” programme. We invite you to follow the event live!
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2.04.2024
On 2nd April we celebrate Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday and the International Children’s Book Day. On this occasion, we invite you to read a statement by Dr Krzysztof Rybak from the Faculty “Artes Liberales” UW.
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2.04.2024
2nd April is the World Autism Awareness Day. We highly recommend Prof. Susan Deacy’s book What Would Hercules Do? Lessons for Autistic Children Using Classical Myth, a result of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant “Our Mythical Childhood”, in Open Access on the University of Warsaw Press’ page.
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1.04.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak and Sonja Schreiner, Ein Bericht von der Reise der modernen Argonaut:innen oder: Ein internationales Bildungsprogramm auf der Grundlage der klassischen Mythologie, das Jugendliche zum Dialog über aktuelle Themen ermuntert in ”Circulare. Magazin der Sodalitas”, 1/2024, pp. 16–17.
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26.03.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak in the interview by Agnieszka Krzemińska on Classical Antiquity, education, and the projects carried out within the ERC Grants, weekly “Polityka” 14, 2024.
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25.03.2024
We warmly recommend the website of Marta Pszczolińska’s project, within the National Science Centre Preludium grant “Antyk grecki i rzymski w czasopismach dla dzieci i młodzieży w PRL – edukacja klasyczna, propaganda ideologii politycznej czy wyraz sprzeciwu? Zmiany w recepcji antyku w Polsce Ludowej w latach 1945–1989” [Classical Antiquity in Periodicals for Children and Young Adults in Polish People's Republic (PRL) – Classical Education, Promotion of Political Ideology, or Expression of Resistance? Changes in the Reception of Classics in the PRL from 1945 to 1989].
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22.03.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak in the research podcast Pulsar of the weekly “Polityka”, host: Agnieszka Krzemińska.
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15.03.2024
Davide Iengo’s – a student and Erasmus trainee from the Università degli Studi di Pisa – held two mythological lessons, on Hephaestus and the Trojan Horse, in the Bolesław I the Brave School Complex No. 10 in Koszalin (“Samochodówka” – for motor vehicles) in Koszalin, PL.
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12.03.2024
Davide Iengo – a student from the Università degli Studi di Pisa, who is doing his second Erasmus internship at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw – as part of our educational activities, conducted a lesson on mythology at “Plastyk” – the Władysław Hasior State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Koszalin (at the Polish seaside). His mythology lesson was based on the scenario “Meet Laokoon” prepared by Dr Julia Wollner.
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3.03.2024
We are glad to share a review of Prof. Susan Deacy’s volume “What Would Hercules Do? Lessons for Autistic Children Using Classical Myth”, University of Warsaw Press, Warsaw 2023 (“Our Mythical Childhood” series): Edyta Gryksa-Pająk, Filologia Klasyczna i Mediteranistyka Uniwersytet Śląski, ArtPapier 1 marca 5 (485) / 2024.
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29.02.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak’s had a lecture on the applicability of humanistic research for society for students of the University of Roehampton within the Roehampton Futures: Careers Week.
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28.02.2024
We are pleased to pass on information from the Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron on the conference “Lecturae Ciceronis 2024: le De inventione entre philosophie, droit et rhétorique”.
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26.02.2024
Excerpts from “My First Mythology” by Katarzyna Marciniak found their way into the textbook for 5th grade of the elementary school, “Zamieńmy słowo. Język polski” [Have a word. Polish language].
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24.02.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak held a lecture on the Modern Argonauts project at the Cambridge School Classics Project’s Teachers Forum.
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24.02.2024
Part of educational materials prepared for children within the “Our Mythical Childhood” project, is available in Ukrainian – i.e. Ірида – Богиня Веселки, English text by Sonya Nevin (Panoply Vase Animation Project), trans. Olha Kolesnyk/Ольга Колесник.
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22.02.2024
The Modern Argonauts project again hosted on the website of Forum Akademickie [Academic Forum]. Thank you for your hospitality!
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11.02.2024
Sotirios Karageorgos from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” held a lecture about Greek culture for the Classical Class in Mikołaj Rej XI High School in Warsaw. The meeting was held as part of the patronage of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”.
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2.02.2024
“Lessons in Mythology” – the Modern Argonauts project is again hosted on the University of Warsaw main website. Thank you for this presentation (text by Karolina Zylak, UW Press Office).
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31.01.2024
Marta Pszczolińska zaprezentowała lekcję, którą przygotowała z Dr Marią Wiśniewską w ramach projektu The Modern Argonauts, „Meet Demeter and Persephone” uczennicom i uczniom XXVIII LO im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Warszawie, zaproszonym na Wydział „Artes Liberales” UW.
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20.01.2024
Our collaborators from the program The Cluster: The Past for the Present, with Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, invite you to a joint reading of Aristophanes on the occasion of the Festival Européen Latin Grec. The film was prepared by students under the supervision of Prof. Valentina Garulli.
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18.01.2024
The European Research Council has chosen the Modern Argonauts for the Highlighted Projects in the ERC Proof of Concept Grants competition. We are deeply grateful for this recognition.
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21.12.2023
We are happy to share the news about the public reading of Aristophanes within the Festival Européen Latin Grec, at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the Universtity of Bologna, by our colleagues from the Cluster: The Past for the Present.
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14.12.2023
Susan Deacy on her blog Autism and Classical Myth about Emma Astra’s review of the conference at the Archaeology and Ancient History Department, University of Leicester, 14 September 2022.
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13.12.2023
We are delighted to share information about initiatives that are taking place as part of the celebrations marking the centenary of the publication of Jan Parandowski’s Mythology: Mr Wojciech Konieczny, Polish language teacher at the Władysław Hasior State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Koszalin, runs the blog Sto książek na stulecie mitologii [One Hundred Books for a Century of Mythology].
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11.12.2023
A registration of Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak's talk in the University of Warsaw's Radio Kampus, interview by Bartosz Pergół, is available on the YouTube.
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9.12.2023
Sonya Nevin (Panoply Vase Animation Project) on her and Steve K. Simon’s creations within the Locus Ludi, Galateo, and Our Mythical Childhood projects.
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5.12.2023
Marta Pszczolińska for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “Sweet Greetings from Ancient Gods”.
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1.12.2023
Davide Iengo’s presentation on “I understand the deaf-mute and hear the words of the dumb: Framing the Depiction of Disabilities in Herodotus’ Histories” at the International Students’ and PhD Students’ Conference “Antiquity Today II: Inspiring, Inclusive, Universal”, 16 October 2023, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw.
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24.11.2023
We are most pleased to present Prof. Susan Deacy’s book What Would Hercules Do? Lessons for Autistic Children Using Classical Myth, Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2023, pp. 202.
The book has been prepared within the Our Mythical Childhood Project and is available in Gold Open Access via the Publisher’s website.
23.11.2023
Dr Sonja Schreiner’s inaugural lecture on “Deep in the Water & High in the Sky: Inspiring, Inclusive, and Universal Aspects of Antiquity Today in Christoph Ransmayr and Jessie Sima” at the International Students’ and PhD Students’ Conference “Antiquity Today II: Inspiring, Inclusive, Universal”, 16 October 2023, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw.
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17.11.2023
The launch of Prof. Elizabeth Hale and Dr Miriam Riverlea’s book Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature… An Alphabetical Odyssey, ill. by Steve K. Simons, at the festival organised at the University of New England Sydney Campus by the UNE Storytelling Hub and the Our Mythical Childhood Project.
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10.11.2023
Sonya Nevin’s presentation “A Moving History of the Panoply Vase Animation Project” at the University College Dublin School of Classics Research seminar.
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27.10.2023
“The Ancient Key to Our Times” – an interview with Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak by Anna Zawadzka in the Polish academic journal “Forum Akademickie”, on The Modern Argonauts project, carried out within the European Research Council’s Proof of Concept Grant.
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25.10.2023
Martin Lindner for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “The Tom Stern Collection: (Not Just) a Film Archive for the Classics”.
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23.10.2023
Katarzyna Marciniak’s review of Olivier Devillers and Séverine Garat, eds., L’Antiquité dans la littérature jeunesse, Scripta receptoria, 20. Bordeaux; Pessac: Éditions Ausonius, 2021, on “Bryn Mawr Classical Review”.
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20.10.2023
The competition that we announced for the essays inspired by Jan Parandowski’s Mythology, on the centenary of its publication (1924), is underway. School Students are invited to participate! The deadline for submitting an essay for the competition is 31 October 2023.
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13.10.2023
We invite you warmly to the second edition of the Students’ and PhD Students’ international conference “Antiquity Today II: Inspiring, Inclusive, Universal”, organized within the Cluster: The Past for the Present and the Our Mythical Childhood programme. The conference will take place online, on Monday, 16 October 2023, at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw. You will find the programme and the abstracts here.
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3.10.2023
Susan Deacy on her blog Autism and Classical Myth about “Live blogging Hera’s Terrible Trap in the Hopeless Heroes series where, TLDR, I’m half way through and taking a pause to process after some experiences to date of Medusa-receptions for young people”.
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1.10.2023
We are pleased to announce the launch of the project “The Modern Argonauts: A Multicultural Educational Programme Preparing Young People for Contemporary Challenges through an Innovative Use of Classical Mythology”, led by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak within the ERC Proof of Concept Grant.
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