Gondishapur Academy

Just as the Renaissance of the West found its inspiration in the legacy of Greece and Rome, we look to the visual and spiritual culture of our own forebears to foster a cultural rebirth.

The Mythology Academy is a school dedicated to the living memory of the world's ancient cultures. It teaches the music, costumes, art, literature, and spiritual traditions of myths such as the Iliad, the Nart Sagas, the Shahnameh, Dede Korkut, Lohengrin, King Arthur, the Ulster Cycle, the Prose Edda, and those of the Native American peoples. Its purpose is to reconnect us to both national and transnational mythologies and to revive the wisdom of the stories that shaped humanity.

Alongside it, a classical wing named Gondishapur pays homage to Khosrow Anushirvan’s legendary Academy of Gondishapur in Sassanian Persia. This branch promotes the study of Chinese herbal medicine, astrology and astronomy, Hellenistic and Eastern philosophies, and the comparative study of world religions. It encourages the learning of ancient and endangered languages such as Sanskrit, Syriac, Chaldean Aramaic, Assyrian, Pahlavi Persian, Sogdian, Hurrian, Luwian, Ancient Egyptian, and the tongues of the Caucasus including Chechen, Circassian, and Ossetian.

Gondishapur also explores the civilizations of the ancient East including the Mittanis, Scythians, Hittites, Xiongnu, and Egyptians, aiming to cultivate a new generation of renaissance minds: scholars and artists grounded in the sciences, languages, mythologies, rituals, and literature of their ancestors.