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Week 9 – Ellie Simon
Our visit to the National Archaeological Museum’s sculpture exhibits sparked a question for me: is the representation of children in Hellenistic sculpture a reflection of continuity of or change in the perceptions of children in the Hellenistic period as opposed to the periods preceding it?
Week 8 – Ellie Simon
I had the privilege of traveling to Kea (Τζια) this weekend, a relatively small Aegean island in the Cycladic archipelago over the long weekend. The island itself is paradisal, with…
Week 7 – Ellie Simon
This week, I’d like to elaborate upon what is undoubtedly one of the most important sites of antiquity: Delphi. More specifically, I’ll be focusing on the contents of a single wall, one replete with inscriptions of the manumissions of slaves. Since we have discussed so little about slavery in antiquity, despite ancient Greece being indubitably a slave society—which I find to be altogether quite distressing—I will be taking a closer look into the lives and manumissions of slaves in classical Greece.
Week 6 – Ellie Simon
With all of the Greek Orthodox traditions that take place in Athens during Easter, and so much of Athens and Greece left to explore, I quickly found that 6 days was far too little time to experience Greece in its beautiful entirety. In this post, I will reflect on marriage in ancient Greece as depicted by some of the vase paintings and other artifacts I saw at both the Acropolis and National Archaeological Museums. Finally, I will give a brief synopsis of my break, featuring my time on a few Greek islands that I went to with my roommate!
Week 5 – Ellie Simon
Week five in Greece entailed some of the most fulfilling days of the trip so far. Our visit to the National Archaeological Museum and the Peloponnese was jampacked with a whole host of awe-inspiring views and information, so for the purposes of this blog post I will take a deeper look into a few of the things that piqued my interest the most, namely the Fresco of the Boxing Boys from Akrotiri, and Mycenaean feasting as depicted by Linear B tablets found at Pylos.
Week 4 – Ellie Simon
The first collection of coins at the Numismatic Museum came from Aegina, which in 1829 was the short-term capital of the newly formed Greek state. Over the next 150 years, the Numismatic Museum amassed more than 50,000 coins from excavations, including those from Delphi, Olynthos, and Corinth. The coins in the museum range from dates going back to the 7th century BC, all the way to the 20th century.
Week 3 – Ellie Simon
This week, we just had one off-campus visit as a class: The Museum of Cycladic Art. We were given a lovely tour of one of the leading collections of Cycladic…
Week 2 – Ellie Simon
Week 2 in Greece was brimming with visits to sites—the Athenian Agora, the archaeological sites of Dimini, Thermopylae, Dimitrias, and the Castle of Lamia—and museums—the museums at the Athenian Agora, the modern city of Volos, the archaeological museum of Volos—which were complimented well by our formal and informal discussions as a class.
Week 1 – Ellie Simon
Our 10-week odyssey in Greece started with one of the most iconic sites you could imagine: the Acropolis of Athens.
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