GREECE ENTERING THE LABYRINTH Orientation

1.What? Three Courses, 3 credits each:  Anthropology 293  English 216  History 205

2. When? April 28 th – July 21 st Trip to Greece: May ? – June ? (29 days) Pre-Trip: eight, 3 hour seminars April 28 th – May 24 th Post Trip: one 3 hour seminar July 21 st

3. Who? North Island College Students Faculty: Anne Cumming Dan Hinman-Smith Jim Anderson

3. Who? 4. How much money?

Student Loans

5. Where?

Day 1 and 2:  Fly from Comox, arrive in Athens  take bus to Cape Sounion and spend one night  Erectheum in Athens Sounion: 1 night

Athens: ‘1’ Sounion: ‘2’

Day 3:  In the morning, tour the Temple of Poseidon in Sounion

Day 3: Take bus and ferry to Skyros Skyros Skyros: 2 nights

Skyros: ‘3’

Day 4: Spend day touring Skyros  Faltaits Museum  Skyros Town

Day 5: Take ferry and bus to Delphi Delphi: 4 nights

Delphi: ‘4’

Day 5: Stop at Marathon, the site of the great battle of Athenians and Persians

Day 5: and Rhamnous

Day 5: and possibly Thermopylae…

Day 6: Delphi Visit the sanctuary of Apollo

Day 6: Delphi … the Delphi Museum

Day 6: Delphi … and the sanctuary of Athena

Day 7 Free day: optional hike to Corycian Cave

Day 8: free day… possibly involving a trip to ‘Kira’

Day 9 Take bus and ferry for the island of Tinos Tinos: 3 nights Tinos: ‘5’

Tinos, Mykonos, and Delos

Day 10 Spend the day exploring Tinos…

Day 11 Day trip to Mykonos

Day 11 … and Delos

Day 12 Ferry to Naxos Naxos: 3 nights Naxos: ‘6’

Day 13… touring Naxos Temple of Demeter Aria Spring and Cave of Zeus Independent walking and exploration of Chalki and/or Apeirathos Apollonas kouros

Temple of Demeter

Apollonas kouros Cave of Zeus

Day 14: Free day on Naxos

Day 15: Ferry trip to Crete

arrive in Kato Archanes Archanes: 3 nights Kato Archanes: ‘7’

Day 16: Knossos Area Day Tour Palace of Knossos Herakleion Archaeological Museum Amnisos Cave of Eileithyia

Knossos

Day 17: Archanes Area Day Tour Phourni Anemospilia Mount Juktas peak sanctuary Gortyn

Phourni

Anemospilia

Day 18: Bus trip to Kato Zakros Zakros: 2 nights Kato Zakros: ‘8’

Day 18: Gorge of the Dead Hike (8 kilometers) Palace of Zakros

Gorge of the dead, Zakros

Palace of Zakros

Day 19: Free day at Zakros

Day 20: Travel To Hania Panayia Kira Melidhoni Cave Hania: 2 nights Hania: ‘9’

Day 21: Hania Independent exploration of Hania

Day 22: Samaria Gorge (optional)

Day 22: night ferry to Piraeus Piraeus: ‘11’

Day 23: Piraeous To Nafplion Nafplion: 3 nights Nafplion: ‘10’

Heraion of Perachora Nafplion: 3 nights

Day 24: Argolid Tour Mycenae and Museum Tiryns

Day 24: Mycenae and Museum

Day 24: Tiryns

Day 25: Nafplion Free Day Independent exploration of Nafplion

Nafplion

Day 26: Travelling To Athens In The Path Of Theseus Troezen Epidaurus Traces of Siris the Pine-Bender? Crommyon Cliff of Sciron Eleusis

Day 26: Epidaurus

Epidauros

Day 27: arrive in Athens Athens: 3 nights Athens: ‘1’

Day 27: Athens Hadrian's Arch and 1st Cemetery of Athens Walk Sacred Way from Dipylon Gate to Erechtheum Acropolis Tour (including Parthenon, Theatre of Dionysus) Areopagos Acropolis Museum

Acropolis tour

Day 28: The Labyrinth Of History National Archaeological Museum Night-Time Historical Light Show At The Pnyx

Day 29: Return to Comox Valley The End