Carlos M. Aguirre

Carlos M. Aguirre was born in Madrid in 1974 and graduated in Classical Philology. He has been a Spanish teacher in the Cervantes Institute of Athens and a research student in the Institute of Byzantine Studies in the same city.

He resided in Paris and Brittany for two years where he worked as a conversation assistant of Spanish.

In 2002, he obtained a position as a teacher of Classical Greek in the Secondary Education Teachers’ Corps.

In 2013 he published A Strange Odyssey. Confessions of a Classicist, an autobiographical essay about the didactics of Classical Languages. 

Since 2015, he has run Classics at Home, an educational platform devoted to teaching Latin and Classical Greek to students from all over the world.

Furthermore, he has published three books of poetry and his poems have been selected in anthologies of modern poetry, as well as receiving awards in several contests.