Social networks appeared on Internet in the last years and increased very fast, as a part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon; however most of them are networks without a specific subject and focus. In our opinion social networking needs a reason; hence logosphera.com is the first international network specialized in Classics and with focus on consistent on-line courses.

As a global network, logosphera.com brings together professionals of Classics such as teachers, professors, researchers, librarians, authors, editors, journalists, etc., also students and every person interested in this area as a source of knowledge or aesthetic enjoyment. Everyone can join this network without the need of an invitation or payment. 

Our courses will be offered basically via Internet as webcourses; however the promotion of face-to-face courses and lectures is not excluded. The courses will be mainly paid, but we will make efforts to offer some free courses or scholarships as well.

Our courses are mainly unaccredited (unofficial courses), so they are taken for enjoyment and interest in Classics alone, but they can equip you with the skills and confidence to progress further in formal education, if you wish. logosphera.com will provide to all that are approved a certificate with their names, title of the course, date, teacher's name, content and the grade. This certificate can be accessed and printed by your User Home page in logosphera.com. Each certificate will have a web address, so you can give this address as a way to comprove the accuracy of the data. .

We are open to partnership with other institutions or organizations, to offer in co-operation online courses and events in Classics. When a web course is offered in association with a formal educational institution, this institution will be responsible by the presential evaluation and formal certification.

Besides being focused on offering courses, logosphera.com will be a virtual community with all resources normally known, such as detailed individual profiles, networking, discussion and work groups, and a very complete News System.
It is not necessary to take a course to join the network, which will be always open, free and unrestricted.

There will be two kinds of groups in logosphera.com: discussion groups and work groups.
In the discussion groups the members will simply discuss subjects related to Classics, always with the guidance of an experienced person. In the work groups the aim will be to produce some kind of product, such as an article, an essay, organization of events, translation of a text, web site, research, etc.
These groups can be restricted to a limited number of members or opened to the entire community.
In a first moment the groups will be exclusively created by logosphera.com, but members can always suggest ideas for new groups.
There are other networks where people can easily create communities about Classics, like orkut, myspace, friendster, facebook, etc. Our members will be allowed to indicate in their profiles their other digital identities and their community web addresses in other social networks, so logosphera.com don't intend to substitute other forms of social interaction on Internet, but simply to offer another way to take part in this kind of environment and give visibility to other communities as well.

This is the beta version of Logosphera.com Project. We are testing this tool and we really apologize if it doesn't work well yet.
In the first moment we improved the basic tools for networking, such as complete profiles, searches and News System. The complete Version 1.0 of the project will be finished until the end of the year. In the Version 2.0 we will expand logosphera.com by creating also spaces for e-Publishing and e-Research in Classics.

Most of the current networks on Internet are simply "machines", i.e., a programming software that different people can use for different purposes. logosphera.com is a virtual machine as well, but there is a main objective: to improve Classical Studies all over the world. Our most important tools to reach this goal are offering courses and connecting people and organizations in a way that allows cooperation.
But we are also concerned about giving human or economic support to individuals that don't have the means to develop all their potential in Classics. So in the next years we will create different ways to support individuals such as students, teachers and researchers in Classics.
Another way is to give support to other organizations that promote Classical Studies in the world. We will offer mainly technical support to use Internet as a tool in Classics, and also economic help for those organizations that have difficulties, specially in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Logosphera.com thanks you for supporting our work! Your donations are a vital source of income that will allow us to finish our social network and improve it. Donors enter their own contribution amount.