Lake Forest College
Program in Greece and Turkey
2001


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2001: A Greece & Turkey Odyssey

Faculty, Director, & Athens 2001
Jörgen and Brenda ("Mom") Ernstson, 
Greek Civilization 202
Peter Schultz, Greek Civilization 203
David Turner, Greek Civilization 204
Richard Fisher, Lake Forest College 
Director, 2001

given our intensive immersion in Greek history, just a few possible mistaken identities


sage Jörgen Ernstson and Pericles?       Athena and Brenda Ernstson?

tall, handsome, cruel conqueror of vast horizons:
Philip of Macedon or Peter Schultz of Minnesota?

David Turner (well shaven, just a disguise)
and Zeus? (Ingres' painting, 19th C.)

sometimes a beard is just a beard: Polyphemus (à la Tischbein, 19th C.),
director, anonymous Greek god (Triton?)
unique among college academic programs in Greece: because the 'classroom' is always an archaeological site or museum collection, Lake Forest College students directly engage and actively appropriate the cultures of antiquity, and there is always plenty of time for discussion and investigation
        
lots of letters and even more e-mailing to family and friends on campus!
we spotted this mellifluous maverick lurking around Internet cafés everywhere
no city has more cafés
Keramikos, cemetery of Athens
krasi kokino
choriatiki, or greek salad
in and around ATHENS
not all that glitters is gold, but it might be bronze at the Monastiraki flea market
Schliemann thought this death mask from Mycenae, ca. 1650, was Agamemnon's
Athena's temple on the Acropolis, dedicated to the virgin goddess Parthenaia of war, wit and wisdom
Poseidon's temple at Sounion

a typical Athens street scene, with a Top 20 list of great writers from Hellenic antiquity, framed by the eye-opening icon of the Kouros, all astride the IDEAL café (it's a brand of coffee, but it sure fits!)
Graffito: and to think that only 2500 years ago Plato proclaimed mathematics to be the surest way to ascend to the Good
plus la change, plus la meme chose: some things never change, like the National Academy framed by Athena and Apollo


those Greeks still smoke up a storm, despite offical efforts to restrict smoking in
public venues. Note the ironic juxtaposition of the compositional elements "bosom," "cigarettes" and "U.S.A.," which would be unthinkable in contemporary American advertising semiotics


the Cycladic Museum in Athens
this was not only an interesting exhibition of archaeological relics found during excavation for Athens' super new underground Metro system, but some of these artifacts are actually displayed at central underground Metro stations
the Cycladic Museum in Athens, identifying its collection by a representation of the iconic but elusive and puzzling 'goddess' figure, which appears in countless variations throughout the 3rd millenium BCE
the Byzantine Museum in Athens, proclaiming an exhibition which displayed, among other treasures, a 7th century icon that has rarely left the monstery of Santa Katerina in the Sinai desert of Egypt, at the foot of Jebel Musa ('Mt. Moses')

here that early icon, notable not only for its beauty and rarity, but for the fact that it so naturally and unpretentiously represents Jesus Christ in a manner which would not become canonical for another 2 centuries
typical contrasts in venerable Athens: above and below ground, ancient art and modern music
blues legends Buddy Guy and Alvin Lee (hey, they're not that old!) gigging with 'Socrates'


 
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