And Turkey, 2013 In Search Of The Field School 1. What? Three Courses, 3 credits each: . Anthropology 293 . English 216 . History 205 2. When? April 25th – July 18th Trip to Greece: May 16 – June 15 (31 days)

Pre-Trip: 6 seminar sessions (approximately 25 hours in total) April 25th – May 14th

Post Trip: one required 3 hour seminar July 18th; two optional 90 minute seminars in late June- earlyJuly 3. Who? North Island College Students

Faculty: Anne Cumming Dan Hinman-Smith Jim Anderson

3. How Much Money?

With 27 Student Participants: $6454 With 22 Student Participants: $6640

Flight and Insurance: $1961 Accommodations and touring: $2900 NIC Tuition for three courses: $790 NIC fees: ca $803

Student Loans for the 2011 trip

Loan (with children): $6,630 Loan (without children): $4160

Where?

Greece

May 16th . Fly from Comox, arrive in Athens on the 17th

May 17th-20th . Stay 3 nights in Athens

May 18th: free day (getting over jet lag)

May 19th Visit archaeological museum in morning;

May 20th Take bus to …

and visit Brauron on the way…

Brauron: Site of an Ancient Temple of Artemis Brauron: The likely site of the Tomb of Iphigenia, who was venerated as a protectress of childbirth Rhamnous: A possible stop on the way to Delphi … then Aulis….

… and the temple to Artemis….

… and the site of the sacrifice of Iphegenia

… and finish the day at Delphi

Delphi

May 21st We’ll then visit the sanctuary of Apollo…

… and the stadium above the Temple of Apollo … … the Delphi Museum

… and the sanctuary of Athena…

May 22nd Free day: optional hike to Corycian Cave

9 kilometres up Mount Parnassus

May 23rd We will take a bus to Patras…

…then a boat to …

… Ithaca:

… home of the wily Odysseus… … his wife Penelope… … and son Telemachus…

The statue of Odysseus in Stavros: The village base in North Ithaca for our stay on the island May 24th or May 25th – Possible hike on the south of the island Cave of the Nymphs to the Arethusa Fountain

Cave Of The Nymphs:

Odysseus is said to have left his gifts from the Nausikaans here upon his arrival back on Ithaca An 1863 print of the Arethusa Fountain, where Odysseus meets Telemachus upon his return to Ithaca May 26th …we’ll go back to Patras by boat…

… and from there take a bus to Olympia…

May 27th: The next day, we’ll travel by bus down the west coast of the Peloponnese to Pylos

… home of Nestor, another hero of the Trojan War

… and his palace…

… full of splendour…

The mythic kings of the Greek Armada to Troy: Nestor was one of the four most important Peloponnesian kings May 28th Guided day tour of the Palace of Nestor…

The reconstructed tholos tomb to the northeast of the palace Ancient Messene: A stop on our May 28th day tour May 29th: Free Day: Exploring the Voidokilia Region

The Palaiokastro with the Cave of Nestor below Voidokilia Bay and Beach from the Cave of Nestor

Thrasimidi’s Tomb: The burial spot of Nestor’s son? May 30th: we’ll board a bus to Kardamyli, one of the kingdoms offered as a bribe to Achilles in an effort to encourage him to rejoin the fighting at Troy

. . . There, we’ll have an optional hike in the Viros Gorge, before continuing on by bus to…

… Gytheio…

… port of ancient Sparta…

It was on these rocks at the headland of Gytheio that Helen and Paris are said to have consummated their affair We’ll finish up our day of travel by continuing on to Sparta, our base for the next 4 nights

Sparta: Heart of the Peloponnese . . .

… and home of Menelaus…

… and Helen…

May 31st Tour of Sparta and Environs

The Menelaion just outside Sparta A tholos tomb at Pellana: A rival site for the tomb of Menelaus? June 3rd: a bus ride to beautiful Nafplion…

…city of marble… … and the hero Palmedes (who tricked Odysseus into going to Troy) and his father Nauplius (who brought the Greek armada to ruins on the rocks of Euboea upon its return)

June 4th: A day trip to …

…and the palace of … … brother of Menelaus, and leader of the Greeks at Troy… …and then the palace of mighty … The Treasury of at Mycenae The Belle Helene:

Heinrich Schliemann’s headquarters for his dig in Mycenae June 5th: We will board a bus for Piraeus…

… and board an overnight ferry to Mytiline, Lesbos…

… and then take a bus to Molyvos…

….Molyvos…

June 7th: Day Tour Lesbos

A statue of Sappho in her hometown of Eressos Ancient Thermi: Destroyed in the late The ancient theatre at Mytilini The Theofilos Folk Art Museum June 8th: Free Day Molvos…

June 9th: We will take a boat to Ayvalik, Turkey…

… on the Ionic coast…

… and then a bus to …

… Assos, one-time home of Aristotle and a place with a history dating back to the era of the Trojan War

Assos is in the shadow of Mount Ida, the setting for the Judgment of Paris June 10th: We will have a guided day tour of Troy and the surrounding area

Schliemann digs his infamous trench at Troy The Walls Of Troy The Sigeion Headland: The ancients believed this site was the burial mound of the warrior Achilles The remains of the Temple of Athena at Troy The Lesser Ajax attacks Cassandra in the Temple of Athena at the Fall of Troy Temple of Apollo Smitheus: The plague at the beginning of the Iliad is linked to Agamemnon’s sacrilege here June 11th: Free Day Assos/Behramkale

June 12: We’ll then take a bus from Assos to Istanbul…

… via Gallipoli…

… Istanbul, gateway to Asia…

… spice market in Grand Bazaar…

June 13th: Istanbul Day Tour

June 14th: Free Day Istanbul An aerial view of the Grand Bazaar

June 15th: we then fly home to Comox