The Ancient Greek Hero is an online educational project created by Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) and offered by edX/HarvardX. While many MOOCs focus on lecture capture and certificates, this project seeks to integrate community and content around the figure of the ancient Greek hero, a subject that Nagy has been researching and teaching at Harvard for almost four decades (learn more about The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours). Through the HarvardX project Nagy and his team foster a global and ongoing dialogue where participants can engage with ancient readings and with each other in a meaningful way. It offers access to world-class content including specially prepared primary texts, secondary texts, video dialogues, audio downloads, images and more--all free, and all designed to be equally accessible and transformative for a wide audience.
Since the project was launched in March 2013, The Ancient Greek Hero has enrolled over 36,000 participants from over 170 countries. Participants in the inaugural session completed the challenging material at promising rates. More importantly, participants describe being transformedby the content, the community, and the rare experience of "reading closely".
The second session runs from September 3 through December 31, 2013. New participants are welcome at any time. Register now!
Watch Nagy's video introduction to HeroesX.
Messages Posted in the HeroesX Discussion
Thank you!
padelis[edited for privacy]
I spent this warm, sweet evening here in Athens, reading the last pages of hour 24 -the texts on Socrates- right in front of the Acropolis, with tears in my eyes. Later on I finished the last assessment.
I would really like to thank from the bottom of my heart every single person who worked on this online course and made it possible for us to be part of this amazing, life-changing experience.
To Professor Nagy, to Claudia and everyone else, a huge 'thank-you'.
Thank you
20annashadow
Thank you, Greg, Claudia, Lenny, and all the readers and visitors and staff. And especially Kevin for his wonderful poem. A wonderful, beautiful course. So much that is worth understanding. And you are all such warm people - your love for the Greeks and your concern to share it with us shone through the 24 hours.
David [edited for privacy]
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