Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius Stephanus, Pompeii, 1st century B.C. Roman National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Inv. No. 124545.
Discussion between Socrates and Aspasia
Socrates and his students
Scholars at an Abbasid library in Baghdad, possibly the Bayt al-Hikmah (“House of Wisdom”)
‘’The Eighteen Scholars’’ by an anonymous Ming Dynasty artist. The painting depicts the eighteen erudite Confucian scholars gathered by Emperor Taizong of Tang, when he established the Institute of Literary Studies
Hannah Arendt teaching at the New School for Social Research.
Talmudic Dispute by Edvard Gurevich (b. 1969)
Christine de Pisan presents her book to French queen Isabeau de Baviere.
Buddha Amoghasiddhi with Eight Bodhisattvas

KIKLOS SUMMER 2026☀️

KIKLOS SUMMER CAPSULES

Capsule 1: Heroic Action and Thought

July 6-23, 2026

Homer, The Odyssey

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

Ibn Tufayl, Hayy bin Yaqzan

Hrdaya, The Epic of the Buddha: His Life and Teachings

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Capsule 2: Womanhood Across Genres

July 27-August 13, 2026

Euripides, Medea

Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

Ovid, The Metamorphoses

Anna Komnene, The Alexiad

Princess Mononoke

Vagabond

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