GREECE: ENTERING THE LABYRINTH
1. What? Three Courses, 3 credits each: Anthropology 293 English 216 History 205
2. When? April 28 - July 21 Trip To Greece: May 25 - June 23
Pre-Trip (CVC, T-TH, 6:00-9:00 p.m.): seven, 3 hour seminars April 28, May 3, May 5, May 10, May 12, May 17, May 19 Post Trip (CVC, TH, 6:00-9:00 p.m.) : one, 3 hour seminars July 21
3. Who? North Island College Students Faculty: Anne Cumming Dan Hinman-Smith Jim Anderson
4. Where?
5. Estimated Required Student Expenses Air Travel And Taxes $1,559 Windmills Tour Package $2,300 Flight Cancellation and Medical Insurance $200 NICI Student Fees $777 Tuition (three 3-credit classes) $790 Books $100 Estimated Total: $5,726 ***Estimated Expenses is calculated based on 30 participating students. Estimated required expenses with 25 participating students is $5,860. ***The Windmills Tour Package includes accommodation, touring, ferry tickets, breakfasts and six dinners.
6. Student Loans Revenue Student Loan (children) Student Loan $6,630.00 $4,160.00 ***N.B. Students planning to pay fees with a student loan must be approved for a loan and have the application for deferment completed by January 21, 2011. Please talk to Doris Funk immediately. The first $1200 deposit cannot be deferred. Students will only be eligible for a deferment to the maximum total approved by their loan application.
7. Payment Schedule January 24th $1200 February 10th $1400 March 10th $2400 April 28 th $900 Estimated
May 25 pm: Leave Comox May 27 early am: Arrive Athens Airport Day 1: Sunrise at Cape Sounion, where Aegeus cast himself into the sea upon seeing the black sail of the ship returning from Crete.
May 27: Stay at the Mare Nostrum Hotel in Vravrona
Day 2: Saturday, May 28th Transfer from the Mare Nostrum to the island of Skyros. Bus to the port of Kymi with stops at Rhamnous and Marathon. Ferry to Skyros. Rhamnous
Marathon, the site of the Athenians defeat of the Persians in 490 BCE and a place sacred to Theseus long before that famous battle. The Heroic-era burial mound of Achilles is replaced by the more democratic commemoration for the 192 Athenian war dead at Marathon. Theseus captures the Marathonian bull.
May 28-30: Skyros According to legend, an elderly Theseus was thrown from the cliff of Skyros Town to his death.
The castle at the summit of Skyros Town is also where Achilles is said to have been hidden on the eve of the Trojan War.
Hotel Nefeli: Our base on Skyros
Day 4: Monday, May 30th Transfer from Skyros to Meteora. Stop at Thermopylae. Leonidas leads the 300 in David s romanticized portrait
May 30: Stay at the Dellas Hotel in Kalambaka
Day 5: Tuesday, May 31st Guided Tour Of Meteora
May 31-June 2: Delphi
Day 6: Wednesday, June 1st Guided Tour Of Delphi And Museum
The Museum At Delphi
The Delphi Museum
Day 7: Thursday, June 2nd Bus Transfer from Delphi To Olympia. The bridge to the Peloponnese
Day 8: Friday, June 3rd Guided Tour Of Olympia
Friday, June 3 Bus Transfer From Olympia To Nafplion
June 3-6: Nafplion Our Base In Nafplion: Hotel Victoria
Day 9: Saturday, June 4th Free Day In Nafplion
Day 10: Sunday, June 5th Guided Tour Of Argolid: Mycenae, Tiryns, Epidaurus
Mycenae and Museum
Tiryns
Epidaurus Jim recites the Philosophers Song from the stage at Epidaurus in 2008. Dan s father wails at the gods from the stage at Epidaurus in 1998.
Day 11: Monday, June 6th Transfer from Nafplion to Tinos. Bus through Athens to Rafina in the footsteps of Theseus. Tour of Troezen. Ferry to Tinos. The reputed Stone of Theseus outside Troezen. The deeds of Theseus
June 6- June 9: Tinos
Tinos Camping Bungalows: Our base on Tinos
Day 12: Tuesday, June 7th Independent Exploration Of Tinos
Day 13: Wednesday, June 8th Day Excursion to Mykonos and Delos
Day 13: Day trip to Mykonos
and Delos
Day 14: Thursday, June 9th Ferry From Tinos To Naxos
June 9-12: Naxos Dionysus displaces Theseus on Naxos
Day 15: Friday, June 10 th touring Naxos Temple of Demeter Aria Spring and Cave of Zeus Independent walking and exploration of Chalki and/or Apeirathos Apollonas kouros
Agios Prokopios Hotel: Our base on Naxos
Day 16: Saturday, June 11th Free Day On Naxos
Day 17: Sunday, June 12th Ferry From Naxos To Crete
June 12-17: Chersonissos Amazones Villages Suites
Day 18: Monday, June 13 th Knossos Area Day Tour Palace of Knossos Herakleion Archaeological Museum Amnisos Cave of Eileithyia
Day 18: Monday, June 13th Visit The Palace Of Knossos in the a.m.
And The Archaeological Museum of Heraklion in the p.m.
The Cave Of Eileithyia
Day 19: Tuesday, June 14th Day Excursion From North Coast To South Coast The Plane Tree Of Gortyn: Here Zeus is said to have raped Europa
Day 21: Thursday, June 16th Guided Tour Of Gorge Of The Dead And The Zakros Palace
Day 22: Friday, June 17th Bus Transfer From Chersonissos To Hania. Hania
Our anticipated accommodations in Hania at the Hotel Kriti.
Day 23: Saturday, June 18th Independent exploration of Hania
Day 24: Sunday, June 19 th Night ferry to Piraeus Piraeus: 11
June 20-23: Athens
Astor Hotel: Our base in Athens
Day 26: Tuesday, June 21 st -- 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
The Panagia Spiliotas in the Theatre Dionysus The Acropolis Museum
Day 27: Wednesday, June 22nd National Archaeological Museum in Athens Roman model of Phidias Athena statue from the Parthenon Statue of Aphrodite thwarting off Pan s advances. National museum sculpture originally found on Delos.
National Archaeological Museum Schliemann s Mask of Agamemnon from Mycenae Statue of Themis from Rhamnous
National Archaeological Museum Wall fresco from Mycenae Boxing boys and antelope frescoes from Santorini
June 23: Return To Comox
May your exploits abroad rival those of the great Theseus.