Visiting the Byzantine compound at Mystras, near Sparta

Visiting the Byzantine compound at Mystras, near Sparta

J-Term at Carthage

J-Term 2011

Divine Design

A group of Carthage students is spending J-Term in southern Greece for the course Divine Design, taught by classics and religion professor Daniel Schowalter.

The course is a study of the interplay between architecture and ritual in Ancient Greece. Students are learning how to interpret the architecture of sacred spaces, how to explore the landscape as an articulation of cultural and religious values, and how culture and religion meet in artifacts.

On the three-week trip, the class is visiting remains in Athens, Corinth, Epidauros, Pylos, Olympia, Delphi, and the Island of Crete.

Prof. Schowalter has teamed up with Michael Nelson, an art historian and active field archaeologist at Queens College (CUNY), to teach the course. Students have all done research on a particular site or monument, and present their findings when the class reaches that site.

Below are photographs from this year's trip. Check back often for new pictures.

In front of the Theatre at Epidauros

Starting line in the Ancient stadium of Nemea near Corinth

In a reconstructed stoa in the sanctuary of Asklepius at Epidauros

In front of the Poseidon Temple on Cape Sounion

In front of the Parthenon

Castle at Methoni near Pylos in southern Greece