Hotels

These are representative of what we will and have used. Date indicates when we stayed there.

Note: while clean and safe these hotels are not as luxurious as their websites make them out to be!

Athens
Parthenon (2009, 2013)
Philippos (2012)

Nafplio
Agamemnon (2013)
Victoria (2012)
Rex (2009)

Olympia
Europa (2013)
Ilis (2012)

Delphi
Acropole (2012, 2013)
Villa Apollonia (2009)

Hydra
Hydroussa (2012, 2013)

 Previous Schedule

This is the outline of what we do on the May trip. The winter break trip will be considerably different. It is also true that each time the trip is run I modify and improve the class, so look at this as a general outline, not a specific schedule.

Sunday, May 19: Leave in AM, overnight flight to Athens

Mon, May 20: Arrive Athens. Bus tour of city; walking tour of Plaka. Opening night symposium (drinks and snacks).

Tues, May 21: The Acropolis; the Agora; the new Acropolis Museum

Wed, May 22: Ancient Assembly grounds; the Kerameikos cemetery; class on Rhetoric

Thurs, May 23: Theater of Dionysus, small museums of Athens, class report on museum trip

Fri, May 24: Personal time in morning; class on Homer & appropriating the past

Sat, May 25: Depart Athens, by bus to Corinthian Canal, ancient Corinth, Mycenae, ancient theater at Epidaurus. Overnight at seaside Nafplio.

Sun, May 26: Sparta, Olive Museum, overnight at Olympia

Mon, May 27: Olympia, Ossios Loukas to examine visual rhetoric, overnight at Delphi

Tues, May 28: Delphi; return to Athens; ferry to Hydra

Wed, May 29: Down time on Hydra

Thurs, May 30: Hydra, return to Athens in afternoon

Fri, May 31: National Archeological Museum to see artifacts from Mycenae, Santorini and all eras of Greek history

Sat, June 1: Academy of Plato, closing symposium (dinner)

Sun, June 2: Fly home, arriving the same day we left.

 Flights

From a previous May term class -- is representative of our flights.

You will be expected to travel with the group to Greece; you can make separate plans for travel home.

TWIN CITIES Departure. Meet (7:15 a.m.) your Seminars International representative at the US Airways ticket counter, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Lindbergh Terminal 1, for departure (9:15 a.m.) on US Airways flight US #3360 to Philadelphia; non-stop regional jet service (check baggage through to Athens).

Upon arrival (12:53 p.m.) at Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal C, proceed to Terminal B for connecting departure (4:20 p.m.) on US Airways flight US #758 for Athens; non-stop Boeing 767 service with meals served en route.

 

ATHENS/TWIN CITIES. Morning (09.00) transfer by private motorcoach, with local assistant, to Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport for departure (11.25) on US Airways flight US #759 to Philadelphia; non-stop Boeing 767 service with meals served en route (check baggage through to the Twin Cities).

Upon arrival (3:40 p.m.) at Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal B, claim baggage and clear customs; then proceed to connecting departure (6:15 p.m.) on US Airways flight US #1849 for the Twin Cities; non-stop Airbus 319 jet service. Arrive (8:20 p.m.) at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Lindbergh Terminal 1.