WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
Mon 7 July: Arrival to Athens
Pickup for students at Athens airport
Late Afternoon: assign apartments; meet to tour neighborhood & intro. to program and Greece
Evening: Group dinner
Night in Athens
Tues 8 July: Introduction to Athens
Morning: trip to Areopagus and lecture on Athenian topography and modern Greece
Afternoon: Off
Late Afternoon: Modern Greek Language Class with Gary and Dylan
Night in Athens
Wed 9 July: Prehistoric Greece
Morning: Extra-credit Geography Quiz at CYA; lecture on prehistoric Greece in Seminar Room
late morning/early afternoon: National Archaeological Museum
Rest of Afternoon: Off
Night in Athens
Thurs 10 July: Prehistoric Argolid: Lerna, Tiryns and Mycenae
Morning: take bus to Lerna; Nauplia Museum; & lunch at Nauplia
Afternoon: Tiryns; Mycenae
Evening: take ferry to Crete (night in cabins on ferry)
Fri 11 July: Crete Trip I: Phaestos, Aghia Triada and Gortyn
Morning: arrive in Herakleion; take bus to Phaestos; Aghia Triada
Afternoon: Matala (beach and lunch); Gortyn
Night in Herakleion
Sat 12 July: Crete Trip II: Gournia, Lato and Panaghia Kera
Morning: Take bus to Gournia and Lato; lunch at Kritsa
Afternoon: Panaghia Kera
Night in Herakleion
Sun 13 July: Crete Trip III: Knossos, Arkharnes Museum and Malia
Morning: Knossos, Arkharnes Museum and Malia
Afternoon: lunch and beach at Nea Malia
Evening: Ferry back to Athens
Mon 14 July: Attica I: Sounion and Thorikos
Morning: arrive in Piraeus; Sounion; Thorikos
Afternoon: Off
Night in Athens
Tues 15 July: Dark and Archaic Athens
Morning: Lecture at CYA on Dark and Archaic Age Athens in Seminar Room; Ceramicus
Afternoon: National Archaeological Museum
Night in Athens
Wed 16 July: Day Off in Athens
Thurs 17 July: First Exam; Classical Athens I
Morning: First exam and then lecture on Classical History in Seminar Room; go to Pnyx
Afternoon: Agora
Night in Athens
Fri 18 July: Classical Athens II
Morning: Acropolis
Afternoon: National Archaeological Museum
Night in Athens
Sat 19 July: Day Off in Athens
Night in Athens
Sun 20 July: Peloponnese Trip I: Athens to Olympia
Morning: Take bus to Peloponnese; stop at Eleusis; stop at Perachora
Afternoon: lunch at Patras
Night at Olympia
Mon 21 July: Peloponnese Trip II: Olympia
Full day at Olympia
Night at Olympia or Andritsaina?
Tues 22 July: Peloponnese Trip III: Olympia to Pylos
Morning: Leave Olympia; stop at Temple of Apollo at Bassae; stop at Messene
Afternoon: Lykosoura; Stop at Voidakoilia for Beach
Night in Pylos
Wed 23 July: Pelponnnese Trip IV: Pylos to Sparta
Morning: Nestor’s Palace; lunch?
Afternoon: Mystras
Night in Sparta
Thurs 24 July: Peloponnese Trip V: Sparta to Nauplia
Morning: Sparta
Afternoon: lunch in Sparta; stop at Nemea; quarry at Kleonai or Phliousia
Night in Nauplia
Fri 25 July: Pelponnese Trip VI: Epidaurus and Corinth
Morning: Epidaurus
Afternoon: Corinth and Acrocorinth
Night in Athens
Sat 26 July -Mon 28 July: Midterm Break in Athens
Tues 29 July: Second Exam; Theater at Athens; Hellenistic and Roman Art
Morning: Second Exam at CYA in Seminar Room; South Slope of the Acropolis
Afternoon: National Archaeological Museum
Night in Athens
Readings: Biers Ch. 10 “The Hellenistic Age”; Pomeroy, p. 270-324
Wed 30 July: Hellenistic & Roman Athens
Morning: Lecture at CYA in Seminar Room; Philopappus Hill; Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library
Afternoon: Hadrian's Arch; Temple of Olympian Zeus; Ancient Stadium
Night in Athens
Thurs 31 July: Day Off in Athens
Night in Athens
Fri 1 Aug: Northern Greece I: Oropus and Delphi
Morning: Amphiaraion
Afternoon: Delphi
Night in Delphi
Sat 2 Aug: Northern Greece II: Ancient Macedonia
Morning: Drive to Thessaloniki
Afternoon: Vergina and Pella
Night in Thessaloniki
Sun 3 Aug: Northern Greece III: Chalcidice
Morning: Olynthus
Afternoon: Lunch and Beach at Agias Mamas
Night in Thessaloniki
Mon 4 Aug: Northern Greece IV: Thessaloniki
Morning: Roman Forum; Ag. Demetrios; Rotunda; Arch of Galerius; Palace of Galerius; Panag. Acheiropoiitos; Ag. Sophia
Afternoon: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and Byzantine Museum in Thessaloniki
Night in Thessaloniki
Tues 5 Aug: Northern Greece V: Back to Athens
Morning: stop at Dion and Thermopylae on the way to Athens
Night in Athens
Wed 6 Aug - Thurs 7 Aug: Days Off in Athens
Nights in Athens
Fri 8 Aug: Third Examination; End of Program
Morning: Final exam at CYA
Evening: Group Dinner
Night in Athens
Sat 9 Aug: Students move out of CYA apartments in morning
