THYRATHEN PAIDEIA
with Dr Sasha Chaitow
About
Cultural historian, author, artist
Sasha Chaitow, PhD, is a cultural historian, writer, and educator specialising in Greek intellectual and artistic traditions from antiquity to today. With over two decades of research and teaching experience, she brings ancient, Byzantine, and modern Greek culture to life, revealing the deep continuities between art, ritual, and philosophy. Known for making complex ideas vivid and accessible, she has taught and lectured internationally to audiences ranging from academic specialists to lifelong learners.
She is the author of two monographs on esoteric and cultural history, has just published her critical study and new translation of Horapollon's Hieroglyphica, and is also Series Editor of allied health textbooks for Elsevier. She publishes her ongoing research into Greek magic, myth, folklore and Byzantine culture at thyrathen.substack.com.
Testimonials
I was truly astounded by Sasha’s unique teaching style, her ability to inspire and engage students to want to learn.
Dense, deep and exciting… this should be expanded into a whole curriculum for those of us who are coming to Greek with an open mind.
Your work is rich and enthralling in a way that can’t be replicated by others who are voyeurs to your cultural/ancestral heritage. It is something so deeply beautiful to witness, thank you for sharing with us!
Such a wonderful presentation – I probably could have listened for 3 more hours! Sasha Chaitow, thank you!
Sasha's work on Greek magic and folklore is invaluable, the result of research, passion and her incisive mind. There are few people of this calibre, we should treasure what they do.
Thank you Sasha for so impeccably, expertly leading us through such rich and embroidered material! You’ve helped to order my thoughts significantly!
You’re a great speaker… It’s so wonderful to see this side of your professional prism. I can tell you love it too. Your lecture series is so good and dovetails into all the reading and writing I have been doing.
Some of you might know already that Sasha is a brilliant teacher, but if not, I strongly recommend listening to her insight. And for the price, the quality is of the kind I can promise you won’t beat outside of admission to a highly specialized university program.
We should be considerably thankful for the tireless and scholarly work of Dr Sasha Chaitow. She has shone light on that which would have remained impossibly obscure. Not only is she a respected academic, but also a practicing artist and gallerist, and […] has offered enlightening study.