Georgetown College

Dig, Study, and Travel in Greece: May 9 - June 5, 1999. Georgetown College's summer 1999 program in northeastern Greece is a unique combination of hands-on archaeology, travel, and academic study of Greek history and culture. This program provides an unforgettable experience, and carries 4 semester hours of upper-level college credit in Anthropology, Classical Studies, History, or Sociology. In the morning, students will work on the excavation of the burial grounds of the ancient city of Pydna, and study their findings in the lab. In the evening, they will attend classes, with lectures and discussions of Greek history, culture, and literature. The course texts are Robert Garland's Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (1998), and Susan C. Shelmerdine's translation of The Homeric Hymns (Focus, 1995), poems which give fascinating insight into the ancient Greeks' conception of their gods. Day trips are planned to Dion, Mt. Olympos, Vergina, Philippi, the village of Morna, Pella, and Thessaloniki. At the end of the trip students will spend two nights in Athens, visiting the museums, the acropolis, and the agora. The fee includes tuition, air and ground transportation, room and board in a seaside hotel in the resort town of Makrigialos for 24 days, plus travel and health insurance. It does not include books or expenses in Athens. (The fee is TBA; between $4500 - $5500.)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Professor Robert Bryant: Sociology/Archaeology; supervisor of students on the dig
Professor Lindsey Apple: History; instructor for first 2 weeks
Professor Diane Arnson Svarlien: Classics; instructor for second 2 weeks

phone: (502) 863-8000.