UPCOMING COURSE
SPRING 2027, Feb 4-Apr 15, 10am-noon
“Homer’s Two Heroic Epics—Iliad and Odyssey”
Dr. Bella Vivante enthusiastically teaches dynamic Lifelong Learners classes. She received a Humanities Seminars Program Ted and Shirley Taubeneck Superior Teaching Award, Nov. 9, 2018, for her class on Homer’s Odyssey, Spring 2017.
As part of ARIELA’s Educational Services Dr. Vivante teaches courses, gives lectures or workshops, does individual tutoring and consulting. These can be for various age levels, from third grade through college and adult continuing learners.
Some examples of Educational Services:
- Mythology workshops with elementary to middle schoolers
- Instruction in Ancient Greek, all levels
- Lectures, workshops, classes or seminars with high school or college students, and adult continuing learners on diverse topics from ancient Greece or the eastern Mediterranean, including:
- Mythology
- Rites and Festivals
- Women’s Roles
- Concepts of the Hero
- Individual Authors: Homer, Dramatists, Sappho, Other Poets
- And more
Contact Bella if you have an idea for a lecture, reading or course!
PAST TEACHING
COURSES and LECTURES
Humanities Seminars Program Courses, 1997, 2012-25
- “Women Reweave Homer”: modern female novelists retell the ancient tales
Girls in a Turkish weaving cooperative learning their traditional arts.
- Ancient Greek Drama Courses:
- “Singing Joy, Performing Sorrow—the Living Dynamics of Ancient Greek Drama”
- “Ancient Greek Drama and Evocations in Modern Drama and Film”
- “War in Ancient Greek Drama”
- “Homeric Echoes through the Ages and Their Literary Successors”
- “Homer’s Iliad” and “Homer’s Odyssey”
- “Ancient Greek Mythology”
- “Greek Philosophy: Foundation of Western Thought”
- “Ancient Anatolia: Cradle of Civilizations”
- “Ancient Greek Heroes and Heroines”
- »More info about UA Humanities Seminars Program Courses
- “Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Roman Poet Weaves Greek Mythology” – an exploration of Ovid’s unique, creative spin on the ancient Greek tales, developing a rich, multi-textured appreciation of the tales’ meanings.
- “Cruising the Greek Islands”
- “The Greeks and the Life of the Mind”
- “The Landscape of Mythology”
- “Relationships and Mythology”
- “Women of Power in Antiquity”
- »More info about The Learning Curve
Lectures, 2015-25
- “A Modern Glimpse into Homer’s Iliad”: Rogue Theatre Open Talk for play An Iliad
- “Love in the Time of Aphrodite”: The Learning Curve Food for Thought Lunch Lecture
- “A Glimpse at the Ancient Greek Background to Ellen McLaughlin’s Oresteia”: Rogue Theatre Open Talk
- “Mythology of the Night Sky”: The Learning Curve Food for Thought Lunch Lecture
- “The True Story of Helen of Troy”: The Learning Curve Food for Thought Lunch Series, Arizona Senior Academy, Green Valley Forum Club, Oro Valley ILR Sampler, Tucson Greek Festival
- “Travel to Greece and Turkey”: Quail Creek Country Club
Bella Vivante at the Theatre of Dionysos, Athens, Greece