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May Term trip to Greece. Agenda. What we will do It’s a class [ Video of Athens ] Practicalities. What are we studying?. Sites Texts Texts at sites. What are we studying?. Origins of rhetoric Some art Some visual rhetoric. Layers of history. 500BC – 400BC Classical Greece
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Agenda • What we will do • It’s a class • [ Video of Athens ] • Practicalities
What are we studying? • Sites • Texts • Texts at sites
What are we studying? • Origins of rhetoric • Some art • Some visual rhetoric
Layers of history • 500BC – 400BC Classical Greece • Cycladic art • Mycenae • Homer • Byzantium
The texts • Homer • Herodotus • Aristophanes • Thucydides • Plato • Pericles (via Thucydides) • Luke
What we will do • Athens: the first day • Athens: subsequent days • Mycenae • Delphi / Holy Luke • Hydra • Shopping & the beach
The tour • Some guided, by Seminar’s International • Some licensed guides • Some self-guided
The pattern of the day • Breakfast • Tour • Lunch / discussion • Tour / review • Symposium • Dinner and evening on your own
Who are we? • Been abroad before? • Studied rhetoric? • Why take this program?
It’s a class • 15 weeks x 5 hours = 75 hours • 75 hours / 2 weeks = 37.5 hours a week
It’s a class • Class reader • Advance readings • Will be studying in Greece • Grading: attendance, participation, journaling, discussion leadership • Post class?
It’s a class • You can flunk • You can get sent home • You can go to jail … but you probably won’t
Practicalities • Enrollment • Passports • Shots
Life in Greece • Weather • Food • Money • Athens as a city • SI local contact • Security
Packing, go light • You have to carry it • You need room for things to bring home
Packing, don’t take • A coat • Your laptop
Packing, take • Class reader & small journal • Walking shoes • Prescription drugs • “Respectable” clothes • Camera memory • Batteries & things that can run on 240v • Hat
Next steps • Passport? • Paperwork for SI • Online orientation • Decide on luggage • www.theplaka.com • www.seminit.com