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The Ancient Studies Department sponsors annual study/travel programs to sites in the modern world relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world.
The Ancient Studies Department is pleased to announce its 48th study/travel program over Spring Break 2014. Participants will travel to Greece on Friday, March 14, and return to Baltimore Sunday, March 23. The trip is open to all UMBC community members, alumni, and friends and can be taken as a three-credit course (ANCS 301) in the Winter Term of 2014. Scholarships are available for Ancient Studies majors taking the course for credit.
Our travels will take us first to Athens, where we shall visit the National Archaeological Museum before boarding a coach for Cape Sounion to explore the temple of Poseidon and view the sunset over the Saronic Gulf from the sheer 200-foot cliff at Sounion. The following day we shall visit the Acropolis and new Acropolis Museum as well as the Agora and Agora Museum in the rebuilt Stoa of Attalus.
Over the next two days we shall visit Eleusis, site of the mysteries of Demeter and her daughter Persephone, and Delphi, where Apollo’s majestic oracle, treasuries and monuments of the Greek city-states, a theater, and a stadium wind up legendary Mt. Parnassos. From Delphi, we travel to the Venetian-influenced, seaside resort of Nauplion, which will be our base of operations for visits to the bronze-age strongholds of Tiryns and Mycenae. We then fly to Heraklion, Crete for tours of the museum, the labyrinthine palace complexes at Knossos and Phaistos, and Ayia Triada, where the famous sarcophagus was found.
Along the way we shall also visit the charming mountain town of Arachova, stay in a sleepy village near Delphi, roam in the winding markets of Athens and Heraklion, tour the 10th-century CE monastery of St. Luke (Hosios Loukas), where pilgrims flocked to be healed in their sleep, and explore the ancient Diolkos and modern canal across the Isthmus of Corinth, Roman Corinth, and the small but excellent Nauplion museum. The group will savor Greek cuisine at banquets in Athens, Nauplion, and Heraklion.
Please fill out the form below to sign up for details or if you have any questions contact Domonique Pitts at dpitts@umbc.edu or at ext. 5-6265.
