Great Tours Greece and Turkey Starter Materials, Podróż po Grecji i Turcji

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Great Tours Greece and Turkey Starter Materials, Podróż po Grecji i Turcji

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Course Starter MaterialsGreat Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbulby John R. Hale (Biography)View printable version of this page >The following materials are provided to enhance your learning experience. Click the links below for free information including a professor-authored course summary, recommended web links, and a condensed bibliography.Course Summary - Professor's written description of the course.Professor Recommended LinksCondensed Bibliography - Prepared by the professor for this course.Course SummaryTo travel the Aegean is to travel through the history of Western civilization. The poetry of Homer was composed along these shores; here Hippocrates made the West's first systematic medical observations, and the free men of Athens set out to govern themselves. Great empire builders like the Minoans, the Hittites, the Myceneans, the Macedonian Greeks, the Romans, and the Ottoman Turks all left their mark on these landscapes and on the entire world from their bases of power here in the eastern Mediterranean.But why visit? Well, for one thing, the Aegean is one of the most beautiful places in the world. This land where three continents collide offers gorgeous volcanic-sand beaches, dramatic landscapes, and crystal-clear waters enough to satisfy any seeker of paradise, not to mention fine food and wine. But it also offers the traveler a unique opportunity to interact with history. This course will take you to sites where you can share in local life as it has been lived in the Aegean for hundreds, even thousands of years. But more than that, almost everywhere you look, you will find archaeological wonders???some mysterious, some well understood???just waiting to be explored. In fact, the Aegean has preserved more of its history than perhaps any other place on earth.This course uses the two great cities of Athens and Istanbul as bookends for a journey around the Aegean. Athens was the great intellectual center of ancient Greece, as well as the center of a mighty military league and the birthplace of democratic government. Istanbul, at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, has long been the border of East and West, the place where cultures have met, both in conflict and in harmony, and shows its proudly complex heritage in every street and stone. Through several lectures on each, you will visit famous sites such as Athens's Acropolis and Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, as well as lesser-known gems like the archaeological museums hidden in Athens's metro system and the Great Palace Mosaic in Istanbul. But these cities are not the limits of our explorations. The Aegean is the geologic meeting place of three continents???Europe, Asia, and Africa. That collision drove up dozens of islands with fascinating volcanic and seismic stories to tell. From hot springs and gorges to calderas and cliffs of obsidian, the Aegean islands offer landscapes to dazzle the eyes.Each of these islands also has much to offer the curious historian and amateur archaeologist, from the mysteries of the Minoan palace builders of Crete to the drowned cities off the islands' coasts, which you can explore by boat and snorkel. Meanwhile, in the interior of the land once known as Anatolia or Asia Minor (now called Turkey), you can visit catacombs belonging to the oldest Christian worshipers, the many successive cities of Troy, or a Neolithic "tell" where the people buried their dead inside their homes and prayed to the mother goddess we know only as the mistress of beasts.Many ghosts will rise out of the past to join us on our trip???Hector and Achilles, Alexander and Xerxes, Saint Paul the Apostle and Saint John the Divine, Crusader armies and Ottoman Janissaries. Each of them is a part of the wonderful mosaic that make the Aegean a must-see destination for any lover of history.Professor Recommended Linkshttp://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/trhttp://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/default.php?pname=Home&la=2Condensed BibliographyThese selected titles from the reading list are now available on Amazon.com. Click on a title for more information and/or to order the title.A Guide to the Seven Churches. Cimok, FKingdom of Ruins: The Art and Architectural Splendors of Ancient Turkey. Stafford-Deitsch, JThe Companion Guide to the Greek Islands. Bradford, EThe Complete Greek Temples. Spawforth, TThe Mediterranean: Cradle of European Culture. Streeter, MThe Oracles of the Ancient World: A Comprehensive Guide. Curnow, T [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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