Sporades Tours- Greece
Sporades Tours
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Primary Location:
| *Various Cities* - Greece | |
Highlights:
| In 2002, for the 22nd consecutive year, Professor Dick Caldwell's Sporades Tours ("for people who don't like tours") are going to Greece, Turkey, ... | |
Included:
| Tuition | |
Accomodations:
| Other | |
Description:
| In 2002, for the 22nd consecutive year, Professor Dick Caldwell's Sporades Tours ("for people who don't like tours") are going to Greece, Turkey, Italy, and Egypt - and at special reduced prices. These somewhat eccentric tours emphasize ancient civilizations, but they're not solely for academics. Rather, they're intended for anyone who wants to learn about ancient history and culture while having fun on vacation.
Sporades tours are different from the usual tours. They are very relaxed and flexible (participants don't have to pay until they arrive, and they can stay for as many or as few days as they wish), and they are also quite extensive in terms of the historical sites, excavations, and museums visited. For example, in addition to all the famous sites they also go to places like Lerna, Pylos, Dodona, Vergina, Molybdoskepastou, Mistra in Greece and Tlos, Caunus, Phaselis, Eflatunpinari, and Euromus in Turkey. Participants stay in fine hotels, eat in the best local restaurants, and never have to get up early. The main idea is to have a good time, to see the out-of-the-way as well as the famous, and to experience as much of the present life of these countries as their past.
Ancient art, history, and mythology are the emphases in the guiding and lectures offered in these tours. Caldwell, who was the consultant to Disney's Hercules and took the movie's producer, directors, and artists to Greece and Turkey in 1995, is the author of The Origin of the Gods and Hesiod's Theogony and retired from USC Classics in 1999.
For obvious reasons these tours should be of interest to all K-12 educators who include ancient history, religion, mythology, or art in their courses. A less obvious reason is that Sporades Tours offers significant discounts to current K-12 teachers (the most underpaid and overworked profession in our society).
Prices for Greece and Turkey in 2002 have been reduced to $95 a day (from $140/day in 2001) plus airfare. Prices include hotel, transportation by land and sea, admissions and excursions, most meals. | |
URL:
| http://www.sporadestours.com/ |
This listing is part of PlanetEdu's Educational Travel category.
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