vrijdag 10 januari 2014

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zes jaar Latijn gehad
en Grieks en nooit 
niet een keer van 
Malta gehoord !

nochtans indrukwekkend
de megalitische tempels 
die ze daar hebben
opmerkelijk rond
opmerkelijk versierd !


nu pas !
nu ik zelf werk met de methode
Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata
van de Accademia Vivarium Novum
in Rome (lévend Latijn, als in de Renaissance...)
The Academy locates its roots in the highly formative experience that some of its members lived in the 1980's on the green and uninhabited isle of Vivara in the Bay of Naples, today a nature reserve of the state. There an elderly scholar of natural sciences, an accomplished connoisseur of the various liberal arts, exhorted the adolescents under his tutelage to free themselves from the mainstream mindset, from individualistic consumerism and from the thirst for recognition and financial gain, that they might reawaken the dormant moral conscience within and seek to better both themselves and others by encountering the noble and the beautiful that the human spirit has produced and discovered over the centuries. It became clear immediately that - for a true revival of classical education based upon continuous dialogue with the classic authors of the ancient, medieval and modern eras - it was necessary to rethink ab imis fundamentis the teaching methodology of the languages in which those authors expressed themselves and the very formulation of our course of studies, which had long abandoned the way of the litterae humaniores in favor of the entirely positivist path of the Altertumswissenschaften.

dat kleine eiland Malta
beetje verloren uit ons aller blikveld
diep in de Middellandse zee onder Sicilië nog
al haast even ver van Tunis en Tripoli als van 
de tip van de laars van het Europese vasteland...

zulk 'n boeiende geschiedenis !
Μελίτη genoemd door de Grieken
'honingzoet'
om de bijen
sterk
net als bij de Maya's


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