1. GREECE ENTERING THE LABYRINTH Orientation

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

3. 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

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

5. 3. Who? 4. How much money?

6. Student Loans

7. 5. Where?

8. 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

9. Athens: ‘1’ Sounion: ‘2’

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

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

12. Skyros: ‘3’

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

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

15. Delphi: ‘4’

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

17. Day 5: and Rhamnous

18. Day 5: and possibly Thermopylae…

19. Day 6: Delphi Visit the sanctuary of Apollo

20. Day 6: Delphi … the Delphi Museum

21. Day 6: Delphi … and the sanctuary of Athena

22. Day 7 Free day: optional hike to Corycian Cave

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

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

25. Tinos, Mykonos, and Delos

26. Day 10 Spend the day exploring Tinos…

27. Day 11 Day trip to Mykonos

28. Day 11 … and Delos

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

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

31. Temple of Demeter

32. Apollonas kouros Cave of Zeus

33. Day 14: Free day on Naxos

34. Day 15: Ferry trip to Crete

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

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

37. Knossos

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

39. Phourni

40. Anemospilia

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

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

43. Gorge of the dead, Zakros

44. Palace of Zakros

45. Day 19: Free day at Zakros

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

47. Day 21: Hania Independent exploration of Hania

48. Day 22: Samaria Gorge (optional)

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

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

51. Heraion of Perachora Nafplion: 3 nights

52. Day 24: Argolid Tour Mycenae and Museum Tiryns

53. Day 24: Mycenae and Museum

54. Day 24: Tiryns

55. Day 25: Nafplion Free Day Independent exploration of Nafplion

56. Nafplion

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

58. Day 26: Epidaurus

59. Epidauros

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

61. 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

62. Acropolis tour

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

64. Day 29: Return to Comox Valley The End