Field Trip!

The past two weeks have been crazy.  Dikemes organized the field trip for all students to visit some important sites in the Peloponnese as well as Delphi.  We saw Mycenae, Epidaurs, Frankthi Cave, Mystra, Sparta, and Olympia. The sites were amazing and very hard to describe.  It was nice seeing real things growing as the Peloponnese is quite a fertile area. The weather was perfect for this trip and I learned so much.  Here are some pics:

My Professor lecturing on the megalomania of the Mycenaeans in front of their bridge. 

The view from Mycenae 

The ruins of the healing center Epidaurus that was centered around the healing god Asklepius, son of Apollo.

The theatre at Epidaurus, with perfect acoustics and if you drop a coin in the center of the theatre you can hear it all the way up at the top.

Frankthi Cave, where the early inhabitants of Greece lived up until around 3000 BCE and Professor Diamant worked on the site in the 60's when it was first discovered.  Quite the important discovery.

The view of fortified Mystra, a site from the Byzantine era near Sparta, which I did not include a picture as the ancient site is no more and the only thing now is the modern city built in the 1800's. 

The Olympic Stadium (the fourth one) at the site of Olympia where the Olympic Games started in 776 BCE.

The most important site at Delphi, the temple of Apollo.