From 7 to 13 April past seven students from the third and fourth classes of Pythagoras Classical High School of Crotone – Elisabetta CampisiLouis HuntingJoshua FalconMartha The GreekAlexander PalmieriFrancesca PizzutiAndrew Apulian – accompanied by the Professors Maria Francesca Grecoteacher of Art History and member of the school’s Erasmus+ team e Cecilia Gugliuzzo teacher of Latin and Greek and responsible for the design teaching area, were engaged in student mobility for Erasmus+.
A better destination or more suitable school partner could not have been chosen for this first experience as part of the Accreditation for mobility projects for School sector for the period 2023/27, obtained from Pythagoras, viz Athens and the 6th Senior High School of Acharnes.
This experience gave the opportunity for teachers and students Of be able to see it in person a artistic heritage of global value which is cloaked in a special meaning in the eyes of those who have studied those works of art for years in books, walking on the Acropolis where they walked Socrates, Pericles, Themistocles, Phidias.
It was then an opportunity for everyone to experience amazement at the remains of the theater of Dionysus, whose scene saw the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides or the comedies of Aristophanes; as well as for see the treasures kept In the National archeologic museum, unique in the world with its ceramics, its bronzes, its sculptures not to mention the splendid gold from the excavations of Mycenae among which the “Mask of Agamemnon”.
Core of the experience Erasmus+ were numerous activities carried out together with students and teachers of the 6th Senior High School of Acharnes who, led by the manager Catherine Kehagiaopened the doors of their school with a great sense of hospitality during their stay in Greece.
On this occasion it took place the presentation of multimedia works prepared by the two schools to present their historical and cultural reality.
Specifically, the one presented by the Crotone high school and created by the students coordinated by the teacher Cecilia Gugliuzzowas made in the form of journalistic service in which Avatars of ancients personages Greeks linked to the history of Crotone have illustrated works of art and scenic beauties of the area whose Magna Graecia heritage is still very profound today.
They were formative educational activities followed by students in the school of Acharnes and in particular the ancient Greek lesson held synergistically by the two teachers: the Italian one and the Greek one.
There are numerous occasions when Italian students compared themselves with their Greek peers living moments of great conviviality while visiting emblematic places of modern times Athens as the Parliament building with the presence of Euzonesheadquarters of the University and the Academy and during walks for i neighborhoods of the city characteristic for their colors, their music, their folklore while enjoying the typical street food: the gyros accompanied by Tzatziki sauce.
This experience was a great opportunity for discussion, an opportunity for teachers and students to communicate in English and, at the same time, a moment of reflection on two profoundly different school organizations and on two different ways of understanding and experiencing school.
For these reasons, the objectives envisaged by design and mobility, promote active European citizenship and the internationalization of the training offer through specific training paths and exchanges between European institutes, have been achieved.
Alongside this, the Erasmus+ project offered all participants an opportunity to visit the places that were the cradle of that civilization the study of which is the basis of the subject characterizing the course of classical studies in Italy: Greek civilization.
There is great anticipation for the arrival in Crotone of the students and teachers of the 6th Senior High School of Acharnes, scheduled for the month of Octoberto be able to reciprocate theirs exquisite hospitality and guide them to discover the city of which the Liceo Classico Pitagora is an important reality with its first courses 90 candles turned off last April 21st.
