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.