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Week Five: 22 October
22 October. Minkun Reporting:
If you are a fan of Doric temples, you should have been with us today. Selinunte was about a two-hour trip from Agrigento, and considering our last two-hour trip lasted four hours, we all made sure we would not repeat last trip's bathroom fiasco. Selinunte was a Greek colony that was one of the chief benefactors of the Carthaginian defeat in 480 BC. Around 409 BC, a Carthaginian army took the city in two days, and they were vengeful. The Carthaginians executed all the men, and sold all the women and children to slavery. Because of the sudden destruction, we are left with unfinished temples outlining the edge of the old city. We visited about 7 temples, conveniently named Temple A,B,C,D,E,F,G, and O, (don't ask where O came from). Temple G was the most memorable, since it was one of the top five biggest temples in all of the Greek World, and it was unfinished. It was unfinished partly because all the male population was brutally killed in revenge; another reason was that the project was too big. They simply bit off more than they could chew. Afterwards, we checked into our swank hotel and had the greatest seafood dinner I have had in Italy. We had Bavarian style noodles with crab, seafood platter with swordfish, and salad, not to mention a little wine on the side. Afterwards the group hung out until the late-hours playing card games.
Group shot in front of the park
The class on the ruins of Temple G
Ben, Johnny, Briar, Brian all making their way through the rocks
Walking amid the fallen stones.
Have Pringles: Will travel.
Another Temple shot
Group shot walking away from Temple
Professor Ulrich lectures atop a triglyph.
More Triglyphs in action
Shot of the Temple's cella.
Ocean view with Temple of Apollo
Doric columns with more Triglyph!
Class taking notes
Scale matters: the entire FSP on a single doric capital.
More scale matters: Julie just fits under a doric capitol.
Ben.
The road less travelled led to the beach...
...and so we went to test the waters.