phyl's adventures in greece

[sat | 8.10.02 | 5:43pm]

my camera lives!!!!! ha ha ha!!!!! yeah, i was going to buy a new camera cause i drowned my teeny weeny nikon af600 in a freak rainstorm in athens, but after much searching, right before i was going to buy another nikon, i decided to stick a roll of film just to make sure. good sign #1: it didn't spit the film back out and #2: the pics turned out pretty good. yes! my camera is awesomely resilient! guess i shouldn't complain about the manual zoom or horrible flash any more. :)

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[fri | 8.09.02 | 10:21pm]

here's a pic of joanna, that roommate i kept referring to, and i at sounion (the temple of poseidon is on a cliff that overlooks the mediterranean. like i've said, the ancient greeks really understood the importance of location, location, location. :) )

hmm, the pic quality seems low. probably scanned it in wrong. anyway, we're kinda squinty, but the sun's so strong over there, i guess we're squinty in most of the pics. ah well.

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[thurs | 8.08.02 | 6:11am]

you know, it took me a while to get used to military time in greece, but it's SO much clearer than this am/pm thing, info that's not always included and can be ambiguous even in context.

anyway, i seem to be having some leftover jetleg. really kinda weird. so here's a summary of the important stuff i did (not including lectures and places/ruins so obscure i can't remember them :) ) in semi-chronological order.

ancient greece (pre-1821)

modern greece (post-1821)

benaki museum (esp. byzantine icon workshop)

delphi: sanctuary of apollo, sanctuary of athena, museum of delphi

island of aegina: temple of aphaia

ancient agora

temple of hephaestus

museum of cycladic art

island of santorini: site of akrotiri, archaeological museum of thera

mycenae: mycenean citadel, treasury of atreus (tomb)

epidauros: greek theatre

acropolis: odeion of herod atticus (roman)

meteora: monastaries

kerameikos (ancient cemetery)

acropolis: propyleia, parthenon, erechtheum, acropolis museum

site of dion (at the foot of mt. olympus)

thessaloniki: roman and byzantine ruins, byzantine museum

site of vergina: royal macedonian tombs (with philip II)

national archaeological musuem

cape sounion: temple of poseidon

classical concert at open-air theatre on lycabettus hill that honored composer manos hatzidakis

island of hydra: mansion of georgios koundouriotis, beach

island of spetses: beach of ayia marina

parliament (building and session)

modern dance concert by omada edafous at open-air theatre of papagou

pop concert by alkistis protopsalti at open-air theatre in vyron

galaxidi (beach and port town)

island of santorini: perivolos beach (black sand), towns of fira, oia, and firostefani, volcano and hot springs

nafplio (venetian-style town)

epidauros: way modern performance of euripides' "bacchae" and sophocles' "oedipus the king"

acropolis: concert of greek composer mikis theodorakis

thessaloniki

beach at chalkidiki

national technical university: site of student uprising

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