Goddesses and Heroines of Ancient Greece
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Goddesses and Heroines of
Ancient Greece
• 1. What?
Three Courses, 3 credits each: Anthropology 293 English 215 History 205
• 2. When? May 1 - July 17
Trip To Greece:
May 25 - June 22
Pre-Trip (CVC, T-TH, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.): seven, 3 hour seminars
May 1, May 6, May 8, May 13, May 15, May 20, May 22
Post Trip (CVC, TH, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.) : three, 3 hour seminars
July 3, July 10, July 17
3. Who?
North Island College Students
Faculty: Anne Cumming
Dan Hinman-Smith
Jim Anderson
The Muses cavort with NIC students.
4. Where?
• 5. How Much Money?Tourlite Accommodations In US $ $2,149
Flight $1,700
Food (Estimated) $700
Tuition (three 3-credit classes) $750
Fees $250
Extra Touring, Activities And Museums $200
Books $100
Estimated Total: $5,849
6. Other Key Financial Information
a) Student Loans
Revenue Student Loan (children) Student Loan$6,630.00 $4,160.00
***N.B. The North Island College administration hasdesigned a system so that those students who aredependent upon student loans will be able to meetpayment deadlines so long that they commit themselvesto the courses and trip. Ask Jim or Dan about the detailshere.
6. Other Key Financial Information
b) Payment Deadlines
Upon Move Up From Waiting List $200 Deposit
March 26th (Airline Ticket) $1499
April 18th (Tourlite) US $2149
May 1st (Tuition and Fees) $1000
May 26-27: AthensDay 1: Arrive in Athens, Tour Plaka
Day 2: Tuesday, May 27thTour Acropolis, Acropolis Museum and Keramikos Cemetery
The Panagia Spiliotas in the Theatre Dionysus
Kerimikos Cemetery: The Start Of The Sacred Way
May 28-30: Delphi
Day 3: Wednesday, May 28thTour Bus from Athens to Delphi -- Stop at Livadhia to drink at the
Springs of Mnemosyne and Lethe, the goddesses of Memory and Forgetfulness, before visiting the Oracle of Trophonios and Osios Loukas Monastery.
The site of the Oracle of Trophonious
Osios Loukas Monastery
Day 4: Thursday, May 29th -- DelphiVisit the archaeological site and museum at Delphi
Will the Pythia offer you a prophecy?
The Stadium at Delphi: Site of the Pythian Games
The Sanctuary Of Athena At Delphi
The Delphi Museum: The omphalos and hanging scarves at the Temple of Athena
The site of the Castalian Fountain at Delphi
Day 5: Friday, May 30thPossible day hike up Mount Parnassas to the Corcyian Cave of Pan
and his nymphs.
May 31- June 2:
Tinos
Day 7: Sunday, June 1stDay Excursion to Mykonos and Delos
Leto gives birth to Artemis and Apollo on the island of Delos
The sacred palm tree of Leto and Artemis on Delos
June 3-5: Santorini
Day 9: Tuesday, June 3rd
Travel from Tinos to Santorini. We transfer through the port of Parikia on
Paros and will see if we have time to walk into town to the Church of Ekatondapyliani, the oldest church in Greece and the place where Helen, the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great, is said to have stopped during her search for the True Cross.
The frescoes of Akrotiri from Santorini
The caldera at Santorini
June 6-8: Heraklion (In Style at the Hotel Castello)
Day 13: Saturday, June 7thVisit The Archaeological Museum of Heraklion in the a.m.
. . . And The Palace Of Knossos in the p.m.
Day 14: Sunday, June 8th: In Search Of The Caves Of Crete
The Dhiktean Cave -- Home to the baby Zeus
The Cave of Eilethyia, the goddess of childbirth
Eilethyia and the birth of Athena
June 9-10: Hania
Our anticipated accommodations in Hania at the Hotel Kriti.
Day 16: Tuesday, June 10thPossible day hike of Samaria Gorge
June 12-13: Sparta (The city-state of Helen)
Night 17-Day 18: Wed-Th, June 11th-12th
Travel from Hania to Sparta via overnight ferry to Piraeus and by
bus from Athens to Sparta. Tour Eleusis west of Athens on the way.
Demeter’s well at Eleusis
Demeter welcomes back Persephone from the
Underworld at Eleusis
Day 19: Friday, June 13thTour Sparta in the a.m. . . .
Temple of Artemis Orthia
The Menelaion
The River Eurotas at Sparta and the rape of Leda by Zeus. Is it here that the Trojan War began?
Day 19: Friday, June 13th. . . And Mystras in the afternoon.
June 14-17: Nauplion
Day 20: Saturday, June 14thTour bus from Sparta to Nauplion. Visit Theatre and
Asklepion at Epidaurus.
Possible Activity June 14th p.m. -- Viewing of Epidaurus Festival tragedy
The Sanctuary of Asclepiusat Epidaurus
Dan’s fatherwails at thegods from thestage atEpidaurusin 1998.
Day 21: Sunday, June 15thExplore Nauplion
Day 22: Monday, June 16thExplore Mycenae and the Argive Plain
The Argive Heraion just south of Mycenae
June 18-21: Athens
Day 24: Wednesday, June 18thTour Bus from Nauplion to Athens. Extensive tour of Ancient
Korinth along the way.
The Acrocorinth: Sacred to Aphrodite but not to Paul
The Heraion of Perachora: Possible tour stop
Day 25: Thursday, June 19thEast Of Athens Day Tour
The Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
Brauron is a worship site that dates to the Neolithic Era (2000-1600 BC)
Who is Iphigenia and why is her tomb at Brauron? Why were garments of women who died in childbirth dedicated to her
there?
Day 25: East Of Athens Day Tour
Rhamnous andStraits ofEuboea fromRhamnous
Temples of Nemesis and Themis at Rhamnous
Day 26: Friday, June 20thNational Archaeological Museum in Athens
Roman model of Phidias Athenastatue from the Parthenon
Statue of Aphrodite thwarting off Pan’sadvances. National museum sculptureoriginally found on Delos.
Day 26: National Archaeological Museum
Schliemann’s “Mask of Agamemnon”from Mycenae
Statue of Themis from Rhamnous
Day 26: National Archaeological Museum
Wall fresco from Mycenae Boxing boys and antelopefrescoes from Santorini
June 22: Return To Comox
May Mnemosyne bless you with fond memories of your trip.