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

The Capsules

Kiklos Learning

WINTER 2026

Capsule 1: Creation Stories

January 19 (Monday) 2026 – February 22 (Sunday)

The Epic of Gilghamesh

The Hebrew Bible

Capsule 2: The Making of the Hero and the Philosopher

February 23 (Monday) – March 29 (Sunday) 2026

Virgil, The Aeneid

Ibn Tufayl, Hayy bin Yaqzan

SPRING 2026

Capsule 3: Women’s Legacy

April 13 (Monday) 2026 – May 17 (Sunday)

Euripides, Medea

The Tale of Genji

Capsule 4: Thinking about the Society

May 25 (Monday) – June 28 (Sunday) 2026

Confucius, The Analects 

Hesiod, Works and days

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