Sport and Society in Ancient Greece HIST 3111.80 Diane Harris Cline The course is offered through the History Department and puts ancient athletics in the context of the ancient Greek society and values while examining the evidence from ancient texts and archaeological artifacts and sites. This trip would enable students to visualize and reenact the ancient athletic experiences on site at the best preserved and most important athletic facilities including Olympia, Delphi, Corinth, and more. I developed this spring break program for 2018; I worked with a travel outfit called the Paideia Institute which many Classics professors use. See their attached brochure. Spring Break Trip for study abroad, 2020 Washington-Athens Fri night flight 3/6/20 - return Sun 3/15/20, IAD-ATHENS-IAD 20 students maximum Leaving DC on Friday 6:00pm, arrive Saturday 1:30pm – go to Hotel in Athens, 6:30pm orientation plus walk and included group dinner. ATHENS Sunday Walking tour of Acropolis Museum, South Slope, Acropolis, Agora, Hephaesteion, Roman Agora until 4pm, free time afternoon and evening. NAFPLIO Monday Arch of Hadrian, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Marble Stadium, Syntagma, Lunch, National Museum, depart for Nafplio at 2:45, Corinth Canal at 4:00, Nafplio by 5:00 (39 miles). NAFPLIO Tuesday – 9:00-10:00 Bus to archeologikos choros Isthmia 10-12:30, drive 17 min. (9 miles) to Ancient Corinth for lunch 12:45-1:45 and 2:00-4:00 site visit (site open 8:45-5, museum open until 3). Then return to Nafplio at 5:30, 48-57 min (35 miles). NAFPLIO Wednesday (with picnic lunch) – Leave Nafplio at 8:15, drive 16 min (8 miles) to Argos archaeological site and museum, stay 8:20-9:30. Drive 16 min. (6 miles) to the Heraion of Argos, stay from 9:45-10:45. Drive 12 min. (6.3 miles) to Mycenae, visit from 11:00-12:00 and buy drinks, picnic until 12:30. Drive 27 min. (16.3 miles) to Nemea, visit 1:00-3:00. Drive back to Nafplio 42 min. (27 miles), back by 3:45. Rest of day free. OLYMPIA Thursday – Leave Nafplio with luggage at 9:00, drive to Epidaurus, 43 min. (22 miles) and arrive at 9:45. Visit site, museum and theater until 11:45. Drive back 43 min. (22 miles) and have lunch in Nafplio 12:45-2:00. Leave for Olympia. Drive 2 hours 28 minutes (122 miles) from Nafplio to Olympia. Arrive around 4:30. Free evening. DELPHI Friday 9:00-1:00 walk from hotel to site of Olympia, visit Olympics museum, archaeological museum, and site. Lunch back in town of Olympia. On the bus at 2:00. Arrive in Delphi 5:15, 3 h 13 min (150 miles). ATHENS Saturday On site at Delphi, walk from hotel, 8:30-1:00. Walk to restaurant Taverna Gargadouas for final group meal, 1:00-3:00. Drive 3:00-5:30, 2 h 22 min. (115 miles) to Athens, check in. Free evening. Sunday FLIGHT back to DC. SPRING BREAK TRIP TO GREECE, 2018 George Washington University in partnership with The Paideia Institute © Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, Inc. 2017 ABOUT THE PAIDEIA INSTITUTE The Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the study of the classical humanities through innovative, experienced-based educational programming in the U.S. and abroad. Founded in 2010, the Institute currently attracts talented and motivated students across America to its Living Latin and Greek summer programs. Additionally, the Institute partners with high schools and universities to design customized educational experiences in Italy, Greece, and elsewhere in Western Europe. Paideia staff members all have advanced degrees in Classics or related fields and extensive experience in the countries where we operate. The Paideia Institute is committed to providing American students with authentic experiences abroad. We strive to surpass the ordinary study- abroad experience and put students into supervised but direct contact with the cultures they visit, both ancient and modern. The goal of all of our programs is to provide experiences that integrate history, literature, and language with the students’ direct experience of foreign cultures. Paideia students can be found declaiming Cicero in the Roman Forum or reading Pliny the Younger in the ruins of Pompeii. We take a personal interest in every student we teach and are committed to showing them how a subtle appreciation of the humanities can make their lives fuller and richer. —2— PROGRAM STAFF This full support package includes 1 Paideia Teaching Assistant (TBD) who will accompany your group for the duration of the program. Paideia Teaching Assistants are trained classicists who speak fluent Greek and have extensive experience living and teaching in Greece. Your Paideia TA will manage all of the logistics of your trip so you can concentrate on teaching. However, your TA can also help you teach on site, assist you when preparing your lessons, and help you deal with emergencies, should they arise. If you think you can manage without an assistant, you may want to consider our light support package. In addition to your TA, one of the Institute’s directors will be assigned to your group and will be on call 24/7 in case of emergencies, and will visit periodically throughout the program to check in and participate. Directors RIC HEWETT is a long-time resident of Rome, ASON PEDICONE is the Paideia Institute’s co- Ewhere he teaches Latin and Italian at the Jfounder and Director of U.S. Operations. He has university level. For the past five years he has a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University. He also worked as a private docent for Context has taught Latin and Greek at the university level Travel. Eric has a Ph.D. in Medieval Philosophy in the U.S. and Europe. from the University of Salerno and an M.A. in Jason has years of experience leading student Patristic Sciences from the Augustinian Pontifical trips to Greece. Since 2011, he has taught and University in Rome. directed Paideia’s summer programs and has Since 2011, Eric has managed the European worked to coordinate trips abroad for American operations of the Paideia Institute and has taught high schools and universities. and directed its summer programs. —3— PAIDEIA INSTITUTE TEACHING AssISTANTS LIAS KOLOKOURIS is a Ph.D. student in Classics at the University of Athens. He Iholds a ptychion in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature, and a Master’s Degree in teaching Modern Greek as a foreign language. His thesis was on the tragic elements found in Aristophanes’ Acharnians. Ilias has taught for the University of Missouri Creative Writing Seminars on Serifos, for the Modern Greek Language Centre of the University of Athens and for Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece program. He is currently interested in the reception of ancient Greek literature within modern Greek poetry. UGENE CUNNINGHAM is one of Paideia’s Classical Tour Managers. He received Ehis B.A. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley in May of 2013. He participated in Living Latin in Rome in 2013 and Living Greek in Greece in 2012 and 2013, and Living Latin in Paris in 2013. He was Paideia’s Rome Fellow for 2013-2014. He lived in Germany as a visiting student in 2014-2015 and is currently a student at the Sapienza University of Rome. LEX PETKAS is a PhD student in Classics at Princeton University. He is interested Ain Ancient Greek rhetoric and political thought (broadly construed) and its reception, especially in late antiquity. He has taught at Living Greek in Greece since its inception in 2011, as well as several Telepaideia courses. He is currently completing his PhD thesis on the cultural and literary reception of classical philosophy, especially Plato’s dialogues, in the 4th-5th century AD Greek author, Synesius of Cyrene. He organizes an Ancient Greek Table at Princeton and is also fluent in modern Greek. OSEPH CONLON has a BA from Reed College and a PhD from Princeton JUniversity. He has taught in various Paideia programs since 2011. He really likes learning languages, reading Homer and Plato, language pedagogy, historical linguistics, Russian literature, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Plautus, and Sanskrit. For a more complete list of Paideia TA’s, visit our website. —4— PROGRAM DETAILS We are delighted that George Washington University is partnering with the Paideia Institute for its Spring Break Trip in 2018. This program includes the following: Transportation Guiding, Chaperoning and Support ▶ Flights to and from Greece ▶ Curriculum designed to create an itinerary ▶ Public transportation passes for the duration of best suited to the academic interests of the the trip group ▶ Private coach transportation between cities ▶ A Paideia Assistant: an Greek-speaking graduate student in Classics who stays with the group to provide assistance and logistical Accommodation support for the entire trip ▶ Housing in hotels in the city center ▶ Entrance tickets to all sites and museums ▶ Double or triple rooms for students ▶ Greek cell phones for all teachers and ▶ Private single room for faculty chaperones Not Included Food ▶ Extra baggage costs ▶ Breakfast buffet every morning ▶ Lunch ▶ Group meals every night at our favorite ▶ Snacks, souvenirs restaurants —5— ITINERARY Friday, March 9 (In Transit) Wednesday, March 14 Fly out of USA AM - Argos, Heraion, Mycenae PM - Nemea; free time Saturday, March 10 (Arrival Day) AM - Arrival in Athens, Check into Hotel Thursday, March 15 PM - Walking Tour, group dinner AM - Epidauros PM - Transfer Olympia Sunday, March 11 AM - Acropolis Museum, South Slope, Friday, March 16 Acropolis AM - Olympia PM - Agora, Hephaesteion, Roman Forum; free PM - Transfer Delphi time Saturday, March 17 Monday, March 12 AM - Delphi, group lunch AM - Arch of Hadrian, Olympieion, Marble PM - Transfer Athens Stadium, Syntagma PM - National Archaeological Museum, Sunday, March 18 transfer Nafplio, with stop at Corinth Canal Flight to the USA Tuesday, March 13 AM - Isthmia PM - Corinth —6—.