16 May - 7 June 2005
Athens, Delphi, Corinth, plus Pella and Vergina (Alexander the Great Territory) ... and many more historic sites

(click on thumbnails to enlarge photos)

                                                             
 First Prize                                   Second Prize                                  Third Prize
(Kelly Daniel)                         (Hannah Cummings)                      (David Chappell)

 

Course Description
Sacred Sites in Greece was a six-credit, Study Abroad course.  The course traced the shift over several centuries of several varieties of religious worship, including goddess worship and Christianity, in the Greek world.  Students focused on understanding sacred sites such as Delphi, Delos, and Epidaurus within their archaeological, economic, historical, military, and social context.

Twenty-four students took this course, our largest group yet.  This year, we added a trip to Northern Greece to visit Alexander the Great territory and Thessaloniki.

In September of 2005, we had a reunion and photo contest.  The first photo above, taken in Livadia by Kelly Daniel, won first prize, and seems to represent the streams of Memory and Forgetfulness at the entrance to Hades.  The second prize photo is a view of the fortifications on Acrocorinth captured by Hannah Cummings.  The third prize photo by David Chappell frames the Temple of Zeus at Nemea.