ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- I would like to thank Alan Magid, who helped me to design my course websites and taught me to use Weebly. He has been tremendously helpful, patient, and kind throughout the entire process. Without his tutelage and friendship, this website would not have been possible. Mr. Magid is also an amazing teacher, publisher, and cook! His recipes can be found on https://drdaddycooks.blogspot.com
- Gary Timin, has been my course moderator and become a close friend. In addition to his background in philosophy and years practicing law, he has been an extremely valuable course advisor, participant, and consultant regarding many aspects regarding class design, structure, and implementation. Along with all the participants in the class, I would like to thank Mr. Timin for all of his help. We feel truly privileged to have Mr. Timin as our course moderator.
- Kathy Parrish, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Program Assistant, has been incredibly supportive throughout my time at OLLI. She has been the staff administrator and technical assistant for my classes. Her constant support, advice, and assistance throughout the semesters has been an extremely helpful to all of us throughout this entire process. I feel tremendous gratitude for her patience, compassion, and knowledge, as she constantly worked to make our classes a success. Thank you, Ms. Parrish.
- Dr. Dean C. Hammer, Ph.D., the John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government, was my academic advisor and introduced me to the field of “political theory” when I was an undergraduate student at Franklin and Marshall College. I took many courses with him, including “Introduction to Political Theory,” “Classical Political Theory,” “Poets and Politics: The Writings of Hannah Arendt,” along with a year-long independent studies course and special studies honors thesis in “Religious and Political Philosophy.” This current OLLI course in Classical Political Theory: Classical Greek Thought, is based on the first part of the “Classical Political Theory” course Dr. Hammer taught when I was an undergraduate. His vision for the course was much more expansive and included addition Greek thinkers. It then traced the evolutions of our course themes into the Roman world and how they ultimately could be linked to the ideas of the American founding. It was a remarkable course. Although, we will only be focusing on the Greeks, due to the shortened length of this OLLI class, our course will share Dr. Hammer’s vision of seeking to understand ways these classical themes can be recovered in our modern political discourse. Thank you, Dr. Hammer.