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May Term trip to Greece

Embark on a 15-week educational journey to study origins of rhetoric, classical Greece, and more in Greece. Discover sites, texts, and layers of history while exploring Athens, Mycenae, Hydra, and beyond. Experience guided tours, local culture, and practicalities of life in Greece. Prepare for an immersive learning experience and remember: it's a class first! Next steps involve enrollment, packing essentials, and completing necessary paperwork. Are you ready for this once-in-a-lifetime trip?

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May Term trip to Greece

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  1. May Term trip to Greece

  2. Agenda • What we will do • It’s a class • [ Video of Athens ] • Practicalities

  3. What are we studying? • Sites • Texts • Texts at sites

  4. What are we studying? • Origins of rhetoric • Some art • Some visual rhetoric

  5. Layers of history • 500BC – 400BC Classical Greece • Cycladic art • Mycenae • Homer • Byzantium

  6. The texts • Homer • Herodotus • Aristophanes • Thucydides • Plato • Pericles (via Thucydides) • Luke

  7. What we will do • Athens: the first day • Athens: subsequent days • Mycenae • Delphi / Holy Luke • Hydra • Shopping & the beach

  8. The tour • Some guided, by Seminar’s International • Some licensed guides • Some self-guided

  9. The pattern of the day • Breakfast • Tour • Lunch / discussion • Tour / review • Symposium • Dinner and evening on your own

  10. Who are we? • Been abroad before? • Studied rhetoric? • Why take this program?

  11. It’s a class • 15 weeks x 5 hours = 75 hours • 75 hours / 2 weeks = 37.5 hours a week

  12. It’s a class • Class reader • Advance readings • Will be studying in Greece • Grading: attendance, participation, journaling, discussion leadership • Post class?

  13. It’s a class • You can flunk • You can get sent home • You can go to jail … but you probably won’t

  14. [ video ]

  15. Practicalities • Enrollment • Passports • Shots

  16. Life in Greece • Weather • Food • Money • Athens as a city • SI local contact • Security

  17. Packing, go light • You have to carry it • You need room for things to bring home

  18. Packing, don’t take • A coat • Your laptop

  19. Packing, take • Class reader & small journal • Walking shoes • Prescription drugs • “Respectable” clothes • Camera memory • Batteries & things that can run on 240v • Hat

  20. Next steps • Passport? • Paperwork for SI • Online orientation • Decide on luggage • www.theplaka.com • www.seminit.com

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