Daily Updates
Week Four: April 10
April 10: Evan and Liz Reporting: We started off the day by boarding a new chartered bus, which, lamentably, is not upholstered in hot pink and magenta. It does have a sunroof though. Our first site was the Argive Heraion, a sanctuary for Hera. It was a nice site to get us going for the day. Next, we traveled to Argos and the pottery-packed museum. Chris Young ’05 gave us a thorough, twenty-five minute lecture on ship imagery in Greek art. Alas, none of these pieces were actually in the museum, but they did have the earliest known Hoplite panoply, which was pretty kick ass. Whomever this armor belonged to, he was pretty diesel. And he had an abnormally tall head, rounding off at a point. (Evan: I have yet another undeniable theory about Greek history: The original hoplites were, in fact, Coneheads. This makes so much sense, I’m surprised it hasn’t been written about yet. I smell a dissertation.) We walked from the museum over to the Argos agora, where we decided to hike up Larisa to eat lunch. Though the hike was difficult and many limbs were bending in ways in which they were not meant to bend, the view from the castle on top was incredible. Our final stop of the day was Epidauros. At the Sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas and Asklepios, we got a lecture from Spyros Petrounakos, excavator extraordinaire. We enjoyed a nice tour of the large site and sat in the acoustically astounding theater where we were treated to a rousing rendition of Queen’s “We Will Rock You” by a group of denim-clad Greek teens. We followed Mr. Petrounakos to the demos theater in Epidauros. Most of us walked up another hill to the end of our little peninsula, gleefully stealing oranges from the many orange trees and avoiding the sheep herded by the weird moped-ing Greek guy whose hair resembled that of a rooster. So, in sum: Oranges are delicious, free oranges are even more delicious, and alliteration is amazing.
10 April: Our Leaders, The Burdens of Leadership Appear to Be Having Something of an Adverse Effect on Some
10 April: View of the Temple of Hera at the Argive Heraion
10 April: Exploring the Argive Heraion
10 April: Randy experiments with the contrapposto stance at the Argive Heraion
10 April: Exploring the Argive Heraion
10 April: Exploring the Argive Heraion
10 April: Exploring the Argive Heraion
10 April: Exploring the Argive Heraion
10 April: Exploring the Argive Heraion
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10 April: Chris Among the Remains of the Temple of Hera at the Argive Heraion
10 April: Leslie Enjoys the Local Greenery at the Argive Heraion
10 April: Flora from the Argive Heraion
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10 April: Fauna from the Argive Heraion
10 April: Chris gives his report in the Argos museum.
10 April: Evan and Sarah examine the hoplite armor.
10 April: Polyphemos sherd in the Argos museum.
10 April: Picnic lunch at the top of Larisa.
10 April: View from the top of Larisa.
10 April: View from the top of Larisa
10 April: The Interior of the Fortress on Top of Larisa
10 April: A chunk of cheese and fresh bread make Liz almost as happy as Nutella.
10 April: Kari and Leslie listen to the lecture on the sanctuary at Epidauros.
10 April:Spyros Petrounakos lectures on site at Epidauros.
10 April: Flora at Epidauros.
10 April: Inner foundations of the tholos at Epidauros.
10 April: The inner pit of the tholos: maybe it held snakes??
10 April: Another shot of the inner walls of the tholos.
10 April: The magnificent theater at Epidauros.
10 April: The theater of Epidauros.
10 April: Spyros Petrounakos shows us the ancient settlement theater a few kilometers from the sanctuary.
10 April: The altar and slaughter stone in the theater's orchestra.
10 April: Elizabeth pays homage to the sweet oranges that graced our walk to the end of the peninsula.
10 April: The hardy few that made it to the end of the peninsula.