American School
of Classical Studies in Athens
Summer Session I 2006
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Athens & Attica
Crete
The Peloponnese
Northern
Greece
Athens & Attica
The American School
Group pictures, pictures of the school
The National Museum
Everything you ever wanted to see
The Acropolis
Isn't there a big temple or something up there?
South Slope of the Acropolis
Theaters and more!
The Agora
The American School has been excavating here for 75 years
and still going strong!
Along the Ilissos River
The Olympeion and more
Brauron, Thorikos, & Sounion
Sites along the east coast of Attica
Eleusis and the forts
The home of the Mysteries and the defenses of Attica
Byzantine Museum
Where's an iconoclast when you need one?
Pnyx & Mouseion
The original democrats
Piraeus
The port of Athens
North Coast of Attica
Marathon and the Amphiareion
Aegina
Island south of Athens with a nice temple
Crete
Mochlos and more
Trip to Crete, the INSTAP center, and the island of Mochlos
Gournia and Ayios Nikolaos
Minoan town excavated by the American School and an
excellent small museum
Kato Zakros
Small Minoan Palace, with a spectacular journey down the
Gorge of the Dead
Malia
Big, well preserved Minoan Palace on the northern coast
Phaistos
Big palace on the south side of the island, also the port
of Kommos
Knossos
The legendary palace of King Minos, partially restored by
Arthur Evans
Iraklion
The main archaeological museum on Crete
The northwest coast
Armeni, Reythymnon, & Chania - everything from a
Venetian fort to a synagogue
The Peloponnese
Corinth
More than just a canal
Isthmia, Nemea, & Kenchreai
Games, games, and tombs - a winning combination
Tiryns
Home of Diomedes
Mycenae
Home of Agamemnon
Argos
Heraion, museum, and more
Epidauros
Sanctuary of Asclepius and theater
Sparta
The meanest city in Ancient Greece
Mistra
Byzantine capital of the Morea
Pylos
Home of King Nestor
Messene
Bassae
The Temple of Apollo Epikourios
Olympia
Weren't there some games or something here?
Northern
Greece
Boeotia
Thebes, Gla, and Orchomenos
Hosios Loukas
Fine Byzantine sanctuary
Delphi
The greatest oracle of the ancient world!
Meteora
Amazing monasteries on amazing rocks
Vergina
The original capital of the Macedonians
Pella
The later capital of the Macedonians
Olynthus
City laid out on a grid plan
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Just reopened!
Museum of Byzantine Culture
Council of Europe Museum Prize 2005
Wandering in Thessaloniki
Churches, towers, and other monuments
Dion
In the shadow of Olympus
Central Greece
Volos, Dimini, Thermopylae, Mitrou