Schedule

Week 1: Mythical Seafaring

DAY

Morning Visits/Classes

10:00-13:00

Evening Classes/Visits

2:30-5:30

Readings

(to be completed before class)

Monday

1/7

Introductions

Welcome

The Archeological Museum in Corfu

The circular Tomb of Menecrates (late 7th century BC)

Walk-Old Town

Tuesday

2/7

The Trojan War-Myth and History

Post-war seafaring - The Return of the Greeks from Troy – The theme of nostoi

Quiz 1

Tempe of Hera (Heraion) and the Archaeological museum at Mon Repo

The temple of Artemis Gorgo

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Selections from the Odyssey

Wedn.

3/7

Study time

An overview of the Archaic Age in Greece-Archaic Piracy – Merchants- The literary genre of periplous

Mythical Geography/Ethnography

Corfu and Scheria

Quiz 2

The Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (3)

The Homeric Hymn to Apollo

Homer, the Odyssey, books 5-8

Thursday

4/7

The Old and New Fortresses in Corfu town

The Island Vidos

The Palace of St. Michael and St. George

Reception at Royal Gardens

Friday

5/7

Sea-Monsters, Sea/River Gods

Maritime religion ­–The case of Corcyra

Quiz 3

TEST 1

Casa Parlante

Homer, the Odyssey, books 9-12

Saturday

Day trip toDodone and Nikopole

NO CLASS

NO READINGS

Sunday

FREE DAY

NO CLASS

NO READINGS


Week 2 : Historical Seafaring

DAY

Morning Visits/Classes

10:00-13:00

Evening Classes/Visits

2:30-5:30

Readings

(to be completed before class)

Monday

Naval Battles – Maritime Affairs

664 BCE First naval battle recorded in History (Corcyra vs. Corinth)

The Persian Wars –The battle of Salamis

The DelianLeague

Quiz 4

Achilleion Palace, Kaiser Bridge and Roman baths in Benitses

Herodotus, Histories, books 8 and 9

Tuesday

The Peloponnesian War- The battle ofSybota

Class at Leykimi

Quiz 5

Study Time

Thucydides, Histories, book 1

Wednesday

Angel's Castle Palaiocastritsa

The Peloponnesian War-

The Sicilian expedition

Quiz 6

Thucydides, Histories, book s 6 and 7

Thursday

Visit to Kassiopi

Roman baths in Acharave

An Overview of Colonization

Colonies’ relations with metropoleis

The Delphic Oracle

Examples: Corfu, Cyrene, Sicily

Quiz 7

Strabo 6.2.24 and Apollonius 4.1212

Plutarch Greek Questions 11

Herodotus, Histories, Book 4. 150-159

Sections from

Tsetskhladze, G.R. (ed.). 2006.Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas. Volume 1. Leiden.

Friday

Seafaring in the Hellenistic Times- Naval battle of Paxi

Corfu in Hellenistic and Roman times

TEST 2

Visit to Kanoni

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 4 books

Saturday

Day trip to Paxi and Antipaxi

NO CLASS

NO READINGS

Sunday

Departure

Paper due: One week after the end of the program


Language CourseClassVisits

15/7 Monday

9:00-13:00

Walk in the Old town

16/7 Tuesday

9:00-13:00

Archaeological Museum and the Circular Tomb of Menecrates

17/7 Wednesday

9:00-13:00

Old and New Fortress

18/7 Thursday

9:00-13:00

Public Art Gallery and Museum of Asian Art

19/7 Friday

9:00-13:00

Museum of Kapodistrias

20/7 Saturday

9:00-13:00

TEST 1

AchilleionPalace and Palaeokastritsa

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