UPCOMING COURSES
SPRING 2025, Day/Time TBD
“Women Reweave Homer”
UA Humanities Seminars Program. In the last 25 years women have written more than twice as many novels inspired by the ancient Greek Trojan War story as have men. We’ll explore this phenomenon, reading the four best, award-winning novels.
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, 2012-22
- 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” – 2x
- “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, 2015-22
- “Love in the Time of Aphrodite”: The Learning Curve Food for Thought Lunch Lecture
- “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