David Miano LIVE Online Courses - Miano Academy of Art

Dive deep into the mysteries of antiquity, as Professor Miano takes you on a fascinating journey into the recesses of time to discover what our world was like long ago. Today we don’t often realize how much of our own culture has its beginnings in the distant past. What better undertaking is there to dust off ancient artifacts, literally and figuratively, to look into our own origins? Come join us as we explore strange new worlds without every having to leave the planet.

David Miano is a historian of the ancient world. He studied Ancient History at the State University of New York at Buffalo (B.A. 1999) and the University of California, San Diego (M.A. 2003; Ph.D. 2006). He has taught courses at many colleges over the last 20 years. Miano’s chief research interests are in the history of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, ancient methods of time keeping, the chronology of the ancient world, the literary and intellectual history of ancient cultures, and comparative world history. He is the proprietor of the World of Antiquity YouTube channel, which has thousands of fans from around the globe. We are pleased to announce he now offers college-level talks and seminars for adult learners at Miano Academy.

“When I lecture, I work hard to bring to life the subject that I am covering, helping the students to see themselves in that time and place. I use a story-telling delivery style. I will often employ visual aids, including images and maps, along with an easy-to-follow outline of the subject matter, so the students know what we are covering and where we are headed. I’ve been told I have a knack for making complex ideas easy to understand.”

“As a teacher, my first goal is to help my students learn and understand the fundamental content of the course. I think it is important to work with primary documents as much as possible so that students may engage the ancient mindset directly. My classes tend to be a combination of lecture and discussion, because it is important for the students to formulate and articulate their own ideas after engaging with ancient texts. Why did these people approach their problems as they did? What was their cultural conditioning? Is there any validity to what they said? It is my aim to accustom the students to analytical thinking and critical assessment of ideas and arguments, whether from 2000 years ago or from yesterday’s newspaper.”