Monday's epigram seminar was the first of our two final meetings and about half of our group gave their final reports. It's been a fun seminar and I'm sad for it to be over.
On Tuesday, we met Olga Palagia at the National Museum for a tour of Hellenistic sculpture. Below are some highlights.
Next we went out to the site where we saw the remains of the triangular heroon building among several others.
Saturday saw us back at the Kerameikos, making up for the day we missed visiting because of the strike. We started with Leigh's report on the Pompeion.
On Tuesday, we met Olga Palagia at the National Museum for a tour of Hellenistic sculpture. Below are some highlights.
That afternoon, we attended the Wiener Lab seminar on Color which was led by Hariclia Brecoulaki of the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity. We learned about pigments and the sources for ancient paints and dyes.
On Wednesday we took a ferry to the island of Euboea. We first visited the small museum in Chalcis.
Next we had a look at the Euripos River, famous because the flow regularly changes directions.
In Eretria we visited the museum where I gave my report on Eretria's history and a building known as the Triangular Heroon, where several graves were found, including one cremation in these bronze cauldrons.
Some other highlights from the museum:
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| Super-cool model of a temple under construction |
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| Remind anyone else of the leg-lamp from A Christmas Story? |
Next we went out to the site where we saw the remains of the triangular heroon building among several others.
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| Trying to find the walls of the heroon under the other, later walls. |
After lunch, Leigh began her report at Lefkandi at a building protected under a roof.
Then it was back on the bus to the site of Xeropolis where Leigh finished her report. We couldn't get over the fence, but there wasn't much to see on the other side anyway. The view of the water and mountains was nice, though!
On Friday morning we met at the Arch of Athena Archegetas to hear David's report on the Roman agora.
We walked through the Agora to the Tower of the Winds for Allie's report.
Next, we headed to the Library of Hadrian for Ben's report.
We then visited the small museum nearby which houses the Nike statue that once stood in Hadrian's Library.
After the museum, we walked over to the Church of Theotokos Gorgoepokoos and Ayios Elytherios which was mostly built using spolia.
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| There are Greek inscriptions in these blocks from their previous use! |
For Flint's report, we walked around the cemetery checking out various highlights like this Spartan burial monument and its inscription,
the monumental grave markers,
the less monumental grave markers,
and the columnar grave markers which become popular after the sumptuary law of 317 outlaws ostentatious grave markers.
Next we had look in the Kerameikos museum.
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| Part of a grave stele of a boxer (we know because of the wraps on his wrists) |
THat night, a few of us went to a Greek basketball game at the Olympic stadium as VIPs.
Though, when we got there, we discovered we were VIP Beta.
It was a really fun game and the home team, Panathenaicos, won against the team from Thessaloniki.
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| Before the game started |
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| Cheerleaders and the super-creepy mascot with the basketball head |
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