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The twelve labours of Hercules

30/10/2015

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The educational material published in this post will support you to teach your students the twelve labours of Hercules.
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Seeing things from a 15 year old Greek student perspective

12/10/2015

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Worth spending a couple of minutes reading this article written by Irene, a 15 year old Greek student in Melbourne, who recently came to the land of Oz with her mother, Katia. With a remarkable ethos, Irene shares what it feels like to leave all that is familiar behind. 

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To:
Irene, and any other Irene, 

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For every new adventure in your life,
for every success and accomplishment,
for every struggle and disappointment,
may the lyrics of the poem "Ithaka" accompany you and strengthen you. 

Ithaka

As you set out for Ithaka

hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
 
Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind--
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.
 
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
 
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
 
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. 


Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard

(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems.
 Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992) 
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Kids Friendly Drawing With Numbers As A Base!

12/10/2015

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 Teach your kindies art while at the same time learn them the numbers!
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Students ask... Teachers answer... 

10/10/2015

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Students always have questions about literally everything! Find the answers to some of their questions here:
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Study Greek at the University of Sydney

3/10/2015

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For more information please visit the Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies of the University of Sydney.
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Languages at Sydney: Go Global - an event for Year 11 and 12 students of Languages (HSC and IB)

2/10/2015

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