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Here is a presentation I made on PowerPoint about what a Greek soldier needs for battle.  Most of the pictures come from Delfi.  Thanks to Antony for helping me find some of these artifacts. Right-click here and download it!

Here is my Powerpoint presentation on Greek myths, my sources are books, Mrs. Altcheck and Mrs. McEnany, and Antony Sofianos. We learned many stories from Antony and here are the three I remember the most. There are also cool pictures of all the gods from the Internet by searching their names. Click here and save.

Limited in their expansion by dry climates and mountainous terrain, the Greeks left their homelands to colonize other regions and originated many of today’s port cities in the Mediterranean.   However their population was soon dwarfed by larger nations and they have been under foreign rule for much of their history.  After resisting the Persians in […]

The picture is a hint and the video below is the clue. You can hear a lot of cicadas – they brush their wings when it gets hot outside to fan off their backs. If you have a guess, don’t post it because other people might want to guess too, so email it to me!

Olympia is on the west coast of Greece favored by plentiful water and flat land.  The rocky east side was so inhospitable that the major cities there such as Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Argos quickly developed seamanship and trade and exchange of knowledge with the advanced Eastern civilizations.  The green western part was quiet farming […]

Driving three hours west into mountain terrain (see pictures at the bottom of post), we arrived at Delfi – the Mecca of Ancient Greece.  Here, crouched under limestone cliffs and built over springs and fissures that release psychotropic gases, the Greeks found a land that hissed and quaked.  This was significant because going back even […]

  Food is one of the very best ways to discover a new place and we had the finest introduction imaginable on our first day in Athens as guests of our guide Antony and his wife Sam.  The morning began with a trip to the local produce market where we saw fruits and vegetables of […]

Focusing on the sites of Greek antiquity, we visited four locations while in Greece: Athens, Delfi, Olympia, and Nafplio. In Athens we kicked off with a hands-on cooking lesson in the home of our guide Antony and his wife Sam as described in Gina’s post. We then drove down the coast until we reached the […]