Italy and Greece in 2006
May 17 through May 31, 2006, Robert Kibler, Associate Professor of English and Humanities, traveled with 6 students through Italy and Greece. They tossed coins in the Trevi Fountain, walked the Sacred Way through the Roman Forum, tip-toed through the Hall of Maps in the Vatican, took tea near the Spanish Steps, and spent the evening strolling the stone streets of the Trasavere district in Rome. After Rome, the group traveled for the day to the island of Capri, off the coast of Naples, and sailed around the island before heading for Pompeii, site of the great volcanic eruption in 79 C.E.. After Pompeii, the group took ship across the Adriatic, landing in Patras in the Peloponessus, then made their way up into the mountains, through the olive groves and the small villages to the temple city of Delphi, where people great and small came for hundreds of years in ancient times to hear the young prophetess offer cryptic advice about their future from the inner chambers of the Temple of Apollo. The group ended travel in Athens, amid the Acropolis, the Olympic stadium, the old Plakka district, and had a last night out on the town.
