A Memorable Trip to Egypt: Cairo, Alexandria and a Nile Cruise – March 2023
Impressions and images from a 12-day trip to Egypt, with visits to museums and magnificent ancient sites including pyramids, temples and tombs. Read more
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Travels in Greece: The Sacred Sites
When one visits the famous ancient sites of Greece, one soon realizes that most of these were built at places sacred to one or more of the ancient Greek gods—Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena and Poseidon among them. It seems the gods were a real presence to the ancient Greeks... They seem to have believed they could honor or interact with the gods most effectively at select locations, chosen by the… Read more
Book Club | January 2022: Pausanias Description of Greece, Book I
"[an] account by an eye-witness of the state of Greece in the second century of our era. ... Pausanias intended to describe all the most notable objects and to narrate all the most memorable traditions which he found..." We will start and continue discussion in the Forum, and meet via Zoom Tuesday January 25, 11 a.m. EST. Read more