GREECEENTERING THE LABYRINTH

Orientation

1. What?

Three Courses, 3 credits each: Anthropology 293 English 216 History 205

2. When? April 28th – July 21st

Trip to Greece:

May ? – June ? (29 days)

Pre-Trip: eight, 3 hour seminars

April 28th – May 24th

Post Trip: one 3 hour seminar

July 21st

3. Who?

North Island College Students

Faculty: Anne Cumming

Dan Hinman-Smith

Jim Anderson

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