Mümtaz Turhan Social Sciences High School Students Were Our Guests at the Ancient Greek Mythology Workshop!

The Ancient Greek Mythology Workshop event was held in cooperation with the Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Classical Philology Society Club. As part of the event, the main points of Istanbul University were visited with the students of Mümtaz Turhan Social Sciences High School. Participants were informed about the historical halls of the Rectorate Building, the historical Fire Tower, the Faculty of Economics Library, Rıdvan Çelikel Archeology Museum and the architectural history of the Faculty of Letters. The workshop part of the event, which took place in the Faculty of Letters Hall of Honor, was attended by Assoc. Dr. It started with Erman Gören's speech titled "The Twelve Labors of Herakles and the Idea of the Establishment of Civilization". Subsequently, at the six tables set up, two each of the twelve labors of Herakles were discussed in detail for about 90 minutes. Our student friends moderated the discussions, and five high school students at each table actively participated in these discussions:

Table 1: Atilla Tekin (Ancient Greek Language and Literature Undergraduate Student)
Table 2: Çiğdem Kocamemi (Ancient Greek Language and Literature Undergraduate Graduate and Classical Archeology Master's Student)
Table 3: Arda Armutçu (Latin Language and Literature Undergraduate Student)
Table 4: Dilan Taştekin (Ancient Greek Language and Literature Undergraduate Graduate and Ancient History PhD Student)
Table 5: Canan Gezici (Ancient Greek Language and Literature Graduate Student) and Fatma Cerrah (Ancient Greek Language and Literature Graduate and Latin Language and Literature Student)
Table 6: Pınar Çelikel (Ancient Greek Language and Literature Undergraduate Student)

We would like to thank Philosophy Teacher Gülnür Güner, who has been organizing this visit of Mümtaz Turhan High School students for a long time, Visual Arts Teacher Beyhan Orkun, who accompanied the group during the event, all our students who worked at the event, and the high school students who enthusiastically participated in the event. Please click here for the report prepared based on the impressions of the students who took part in the organization.