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Representative Itinerary for
Fellowship
Study Tour
"Greece is still a sacred precinct—
and my belief is it will remain so until the end of time."
—Henry
Miller
(Map)
April 17 – 30
(Approximate travel dates; the study tour is scheduled during school
Spring break, and one week before or after Spring break)
- Greek tour guide leads tours
- Team leaders and Greek Study Fellows participate in occasional
evening seminars and gatherings
- Day 1
Flight from Boston
to Athens via Munich (or Frankfurt)
- Day 2
Athens
- Walking tour of the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum,
followed by
- A bus tour of Athens (bus will pass the Temple of the
Olympian Zeus, Hadrian’s Arch, the Parliament Building,
the Presidential Palace, the Olympic Stadium, the National
Library, Schliemann’s house, and the University
of Athens)
- Guided tour of the National Archaeological Museum
- Day 3
Athens
- Walking tour of the ancient Agora, followed by
- Lunch along the coastal road from Athens to Cape Sounion
to visit the Temple of Poseidon, perched on a cliff,
overlooking the Aegean Sea.
- Day 4
Corinth, Epidaurus, Nauplion
- Following breakfast, group will start the five-day
Classical tour, driving first to Corinth, and stopping
at the ancient
theater of Epidaurus
- The day will end in the beautiful seaside town of Nauplion
- Dinner and overnight in Nauplion
- Day 5
Mycenae, Tiryns, Kalamata
- Visits to the Palace of Mycenae, the Tomb of Agamemnon,
and then on to Tiryns
- Following these visits, we will drive south to Kalamata
for dinner and overnight.
- Day 6
Pylos (Palace of Nestor), Olympia
- Following breakfast, travel west to Pylos to visit
the Palace of Nestor. From Pylos, drive north along the
western
coast of the Peloponnesus to Olympia. Dinner and
overnight in Olympia.
- Day 7
Olympia, Delphi
- Morning tour of Olympia, including visits to the stadium
and the Olympia Museum
- Early in the afternoon, depart for Delphi, the last
stop of the tour
- Cross from the Peloponnese to the mainland and arrive
in Delphi early in the evening
- Dinner and overnight in Delphi
- Day 8
Delphi, Aegina
- Morning tour of Delphi, including visits to the Temple
of Apollo, the Castalian Spring, the Treasury of
the Athenians and the local museum housing the famous
bronze
statue of
the charioteer
- Afternoon return to Piraeus, the port of Athens, for
a short hydrofoil ride to the Saronic Island of Aegina
- Upon arrival, transfer to Aghia Marina.
- Day 10
Aegina
- Optional walks and visit to Monastery of Nektarios
- For those interested, opportunities to visit nearby
islands of Hydra and Poros
- Day 13
Flight from Athens to Boston via Munich or Athens
Useful Words and Phrases
- Yia-sou (general greeting,
hello, goodbye)
- Ef-ha-ri-sto (thank you)
- Ka-li-mer -a (good morning)
- Ne-ro, pa-ra-ka-lo (water,
please)
- En-da-xi (everything’s
okay)
- Twa-le-ta (Toilet)
Share a Poem
Plan to share a poem or prose
passage on the trip. We will have ample time
— several days on the bus,
occasional evening gatherings over wine — to bring to the attention of others a poem or prose passage
that speaks to Greece and Greek aspirations and ideals. In
5 minutes or so, introduce the poem and the poet, read the
poem aloud, and briefly comment on why you chose it, and
what it means. You might choose a passage from something
we’ve read in class, the Iliad or the Odyssey, for
example, or one of the ancient plays, or from Herodotus or
Thucydides. You might read from Hesiod’s Theogony or
Works and Days, or from the lyric poets Pindar and Sappho.
Or you might select a poem from Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley,
Byron; or from the modern Greek poets C.P. Cavafy, George
Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Yiannis Ritsos; or from poets who
have drawn from classical themes such as Seamus Heaney, Irish
Nobel Prize winner, or Rita Dove, former American poet laureate.
Please bring copies of poems for others.
Recommended Reading
(see
also Examined Life course
list of required reading)
Modern Greek Poets
- C.P. Cavafy Collected Poems. Revised Edition (1992).
Edited by George Savidis. Translated by Edmund Keeley
and Philip Sherrard. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1992. pb
- Oysseus Elytis The Sovereign Sun Selected Poems. Translated
with an Introduction and Notes by Kimon Friar. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1974. pb
- Yiannis Ritsos Selected Poems. Translated by Nikos
Strangos with an Introduction by Peter Bien. Athens:
Efstathiadis Group pb 1988.
- George Seferis Collected Poems. Revised Edition. Translated
by Edmund Keeley and Phillip Sherrard. NJ: Princeton
1995. Pb
Writers on Greece
- Laurence Durrell’s Prospero’s Cell (Faber)
/Corfu
- Louis DeBernieres’s Corelli’s Mandolin
/Cephalonia
- Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi (New
Directions)
- Patricia Storace’s Dinner with Persephone /Athens
- Austen Kark’s Attic in Greece /Nauplion
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