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Greece and Turkey May-June,
2010
 Click on the screen below to see the iMovie of our most recent trip.
Professors Phil Adamo,
(History) and Phil Quanbeck (Religion) have already led two successful
trips to the Aegean Sea. In 2003 we went to Greece. In
2005 and 2007 we went
to Greece and Turkey. Each trip combined
visits to a
range of historic sites with readings from historic sources, and plenty
of hand-on experience, for example, at a real-life archaeological
excavation.
Course
Descriptions
HIS
440: Travel and Tourism in the Ancient World
This course will examine
tourism in the ancient world using a guidebook for tourists written by
Pausanias, a Greek living in the Roman Empire during the second century
AD. We will visit many of the sites Pausanias visited, and
compare Pausanias’s response to antiquity with our
own.
Pausanias also described many of the difficulties of tourism in
general: eating new and different foods, struggles communicating with
people who don’t speak your language, price gouging at the
market
place, sleeping in noisy and cramped hotel rooms. Using our
own
experience as a reference, we will try to enter imaginatively into the
experience of the ancient tourist.
REL
410: Travels of the Apostle Paul
The letters of the
Apostle
Paul were written to real people in real places. Experience
the
world of early Christianity through visits to Corinth, Ephesus,
Olympia, Athens and Istanbul. Ancient and modern religion and
history find a meeting point in the countries of Turkey and
Greece. The missionary journeys of Paul, Barnabas and other
early
Christians, together with the work of great philosophers such as
Aristotle and Plato, have created a rich historical record of early
times. These influences can be felt today in the religious
traditions and cultures that link modern and ancient history into a
rich tapestry of daily life in Turkey and Greece.
For more information,
e-mail adamo@augsburg.edu
or quanbeck@augsburg.edu.
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