STEM at Seven Hills
The Large Theater of Pompeii
Fall, 2025 - STEM in the Classics
meets: TBD - Please see google scheduling poll
In this class, students will study figures of the ancient world in the STEM context: Archimedes, Hippocrates, Pliny the Elder, Pythagoras, and more, with the goal of understanding how the Greeks and Romans approached the topics of math, medicine, the natural world, and technology. The main theme of the course is that the Greeks/Romans typically approached these ideas from a Platonic perspective: they wanted to be able to categorize and generalize and discover absolutes—an approach that works well (though not perfectly) in math, but not so well with science and medicine.
Students will complete reading assignments and participate in thoughtful class discussions, gaining knowledge of the ancient world that can directly apply to the present