A January 1998 tour of Greece and Crete led by Professor John C. Overbeck, Dept. of Classics

Grecian Odyssey Tour, Plus Minoan Crete Extension

(-- Now that the tour is over, click the links for some photos. --)

[drawing of the Parthenon] Professor John C. Overbeck of the State University of New York at Albany Classics Department lead an 11-day tour in January 1998 exploring archaeology and history in southern Greece. There was an optional four-day extension to visit sites in Crete.

[drawing of view to the east
from the interior of the Propylaia west gate of the Athens Akropolis] Sites visited on the main tour included Athens [click this link to see a west view of the Propylaia--a simplified reconstruction of the east interior of which is the right-hand drawing here--in January, 1998], and the National Archaeological Museum; Corinth; Mycenae; the sanctuary and Museum of Asklepios at Epidaurus; Nauplion; Tiryns; Lerna; Tegea; Sparta; Pylos; Olympia; Naupactos; Delphi; the Byzantine Church of the Dormition, and the beehive tomb, at Orchomenos; and Gla.

The additional four-day tour of Crete visited the Museum of Herakleion; Knossos; Gortyn; Phaistos; Ayia Triada; Amnisos; Nirou Khani; Mallia; and Gournia.

Professor Overbeck will be leading another tour, to the Peloponnese and Crete, at the New Year, 2002. More information about that tour can been seen at that tour's page at this web site.

The 1998 tour was arranged by:

John C. Overbeck
State University of New York, Albany
HU 328, University at Albany
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222 USA
tel. 518-442-4048
e-mail Overbeck@cnsunix.albany.edu

and

Travel with the Experts
P.O. Box 7966
Haledon, NJ 07538-7966 USA
tel. 973-595-7898; fax 973-595-8389

[my home page] [Classics Department home page] [University at Albany home page]

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(Image information:
The images of the Parthenon and of the Propylaia west gate to the Athens Akropolis are from drawings by Graham Phillips Stevens. Versions of them are in his The Setting of the Periclean Parthenon, Hesperia Supp. III (1940), as the frontispiece and on page 3.)